Crog18

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CAUTION: Adding spam links and promotional items violates Wikipedia policy

Your edits to John Battelle violate Wikipedia policies. Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Please refrain from writing autobiographical articles. Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged; if you create such an article, it may be deleted. All edits to articles must conform to our policies on no original research, neutral point of view, and avoid conflicts of interest. Please remember that Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, not a personal webspace provider. If your achievements are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.) Thank you. Hello Crog18. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Please do not use Wikipedia for affiliate marketing. This is contrary to the guidelines on external links and immediately suggests that you may have a conflict of interest. Feel free to take a look at the five pillars of Wikipedia policy to learn more about this project and how you can make a positive impact. Thank you. Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses. Wikipedia is not the "Yellow Pages". If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets, such as Wikia's Yellowikis. Thank you. Oldtaxguy (talk) 01:57, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

May 2011

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In one of your recent edits, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you. Yopie (talk) 15:11, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. In your recent edit to Allies of World War II, you added links to an article which did not add content or meaning, or repeated the same link several times throughout the article. Please see Wikipedia's guideline on links to avoid overlinking. Thank you. Yopie (talk) 17:08, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia guidelines

Dear Crog18, the John Battelle article prior to my edits was blatantly promotional, and read more like like a marketing piece. The relevant question is not "how is it like an advertisement" but "how was it NOT like an advertisement." Please read WP:Spam for guidelines. The article clearly was all three types of spam. Also, please read WP:Notability regarding the subject matter of this article. For more on WP guidelines, see the links for new editors provided earlier above. Oldtaxguy (talk) 22:03, 25 May 2011 (UTC)