Jtnt
October 2008
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Digital single-lens reflex camera do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Dicklyon (talk) 01:00, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Photokina. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Dicklyon (talk) 01:01, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links, as you did with this edit to IPod. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. J.delanoygabsadds 01:07, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you add inappropriate external links, as you did with this edit to Memory card. J.delanoygabsadds 01:09, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Podcast, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Dicklyon (talk) 02:06, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
{{unblock}} I apologize. I did not see these warnings until after I was blocked. If I had seen any one of them, I would not have continued to post the links. I was indeed posting links to a site I run, but I was doing so in a way that I *thought* was appropriate and adding to the value of the Wikipedia article. I was not doing it to spam Wikipedia purposefully. Again, I apologize, and now that I fully understand the rules surrounding posting external links, I will not do this again. I cannot state that the block is wrong (as suggested in the "Guide to appealing a block." but I hope the above shows that I recognize the reason behind the block, and that I will not do the same thing again. I am an active internet community member and indeed am an active internet community evangelist and administrator. I hope this will show you that I meant no harm to Wikipedia and that now that I know the rules, I will not break them in the future. As you can see from my prior contributions, I am a long-time and active contributor to Wikipedia. --- --- I also notice that an article on myself that I added was removed during this process. I included verifiable, 3rd-party, published sources in this addition, which I think establish notability, as I am an established part of the history of Dave Matthews Band, the Benevento-Russo Duo, and other Wikipedia-worthy articles as mentioned. I am not sure if this deletion was automatic due to the other links I was adding and blocked for above, but I'd like to also request that this article (Nicholas Tolson) be reconsidered for re-inclusion. I can edit as you see fit if anything in the article was seen as spam. Thank you. --- --- Not sure where to add responses to the below, so I'll add them here. I understand now that autobiographies are discouraged. I will not attempt to post mine again at all. Thank you for the unblock support.
- Unblocked as per the thoughtful and clueful unblock request (n.b. "I understand now that autobiographies are discouraged. I will not attempt to post mine again at all" addendum) and the discussion in the unblock support section below. — Athaenara ✉ 06:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
- The above is a good response. However, I reviewed your autobiography and agree completely with its deletion. It used sources but none that could be considered reliable except for one, that barely mentions you and certainly cannot support a biography. Additionally, autobiographies are strongly discouraged. Before any unblock, I think we need a better idea of what kind of editing you would do if you were unblocked. Mangojuicetalk 05:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Unblock support
editJ, I have left a note with the blocking admin, to let him know that you did NOT continue spamming after the final warnings (both final warnings were for two earlier spams). However, please read up on policy if you get unblocked. Autobiographies are discouraged (see WP:AUTOBIO); and read WP:NOTE. Dicklyon (talk) 03:42, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
- I did not block for spamming; I blocked for the huge autobiographical article that promoted him and his company (jtnt.com). However, I have no problem with other admin review of this block. Tan | 39 05:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
- As per the unblock request and Dicklyon's post above, I support unblocking as well. Note that the article can be undeleted and userfied (moved to a userspace subpage) so Jtnt could work on its compliance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. — Athaenara ✉ 05:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
Now that I know what happened, I'd say unblock, still, since no warning was given re the "huge" autobio; but I wouldn't undelete and userfy it; if someone thinks he's notable they can start and write one from sources. Dicklyon (talk) 05:25, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
- It wasn't huge (at maximum ~ 5 kb it was smaller than the ~ 9 kb of this page) and wasn"t as egregious as many I've seen in CAT:SPAM. At any rate, Jtnt posted (05:35, 13 October 2008 UTC diff) that he won't attempt to re-add it. — Athaenara ✉ 06:30, 13 October 2008 (UTC)