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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see

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Our concerns apply to your addition of links to these articles

• Appalachia
• Dash Shaw
• Tomer Hanuka
• Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles
• Dash Shaw
• Drew Friedman
• Omar lee
• Illustration

and the commercial sites you linked to:

• Search web links: theispot.com
• Search web links: montanipublishing.com

--A. B. 16:36, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Appalachia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --A. B. 22:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks.

This refers to the same links added to the same articles. --A. B. 03:05, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Your book

Thanks for not linking to your book again. I deleted the linkless reference you added to the Appalachia article. There are a couple of problems -- read these carefully:

• Wikipedia's conflict of interest rules
• Wikipedia's Verifiability policy, especially the section on self-published works

Here's my suggestion: Leave a note about your book on the talk page, describing it and letting the other editors decide whether they want to add it. That's the standard protocol for any edits about yourself or your work. If the other editors disagree with me on the verifiability issue, then let one of them add the link -- you shouldn't.

Expect hard questioning on the verifiability/self-publishing issue; don't take it personally. As it says at the bottom of the edit page when you open it, "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it." It's how we get to consensus.

Again, thanks for not adding the publishing link -- that's a clear violation of WP:EL and we'd all feel bad about warning and sanctioning you.

Again, welcome to Wikipedia and I hope you'll add content, not just links -- if you've published a book, you clearly have a lot to contribute around here. --A. B. 23:21, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

1 December 2006

Please stop. If you continue spamming, as you did in Appalachia, you will be blocked from editing. --A. B. 20:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

2 December 2006

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. - Calltech 05:17, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

<link removed>, Google and spam

This is not a warning ... but rather a suggestion as you careen along this path of spamming and antagonizing: take a look at this discussion, "Google and Wikipedia share a common interest in combatting link-spam", of a possible initiative by Google. Nothing official or formal has happened and likely never will, given Wikipedia's built-in anarchy. Nevertheless, Wikipedia's global spam list is open to any search engine operator that wants to peruse it:

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Spam_blacklist

There are some indications they are starting to use it when compiling their list of blacklisted sites to delete from their search results.

It's up to them how they decide to this list to blacklist sites from their rankings.

It's up to you as to whether your company gets on it. Cheers, --A. B. 20:13, 3 December 2006 (UTC)