Peacockpie

March 2008

Hi. The links to http://www.timelines.tv/ that you added, do not appear to currently work, so have all been removed. In addition please read the Wikipedia guidelines concerning Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:Spam before re-adding any links.

If you'd like to learn more about contributing to Wikipedia, please read through the various Wikipedia:Introduction pages. Thanks. -- Quiddity (talk) 17:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

The link on the Titus Salt page works fine for me (I use Firefox, do you?). It appears to be a useful video, made for BBC and available free, not advertising a commercial enterprise, so I see no reason to delete it and have reinstated it. PamD (talk) 18:08, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Yeah, the videos links seem to work again now. I did try a number of times, I'm not sure whether my connection or the site itself was experiencing problems. Anyway, I shall revert all my removals. I'll add a standard welcome-template below this, it has a handful of interesting or useful links. Thanks, and sorry about the confusion. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 19:35, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

The links appear to be serial spam additions to promote his/her website. I have removed them all articles. - Dudesleeper / Talk 09:35, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

That's not assuming good faith. The links appear to be informative, and there is no indication that this account is the owner of the website timelines.tv. I strongly suggest you reinstate the links, if that was the only reason for their removal. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Peacockpie: Are you the owner/creator of www.Timelines.tv? If so, please read WP:Conflict of interest before adding any more external links. Thanks :) -- Quiddity (talk) 18:11, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi - in answer to your question - no, I don't own Timelines.tv, but the people who do are friends of mine and I admire what they're doing. It's a non-commercial site, so no one stands to gain anything. I thought people interested in finding out about Titus Salt on Wikipedia might like seeing the item on Titus Salt on Timelines.tv - and ditto for the other modules. It's all about knowledge and discovery and sharing. British schoolkids and teachers, especially, would value the links. So - does that make my additions "serial spam additions to promote [a] website"? - If so, I won't add any more links, and I'm genuinely sorry. But there really wasn't any bad faith involved. Peacockpie.

PS - I've just looked through the COI page you recommend, and feel all the more sure that what I did wasn't in breach. It's all about motivation, isn't it? Are we genuinely seeking to add to the usefulness of Wikipedia, or not? Personally, I genuinely think a page on Titus Salt with a link to Timelines is a 'better' page than one without. And since I have nothing personally to gain from adding the link, my motivations must be sound, no? Anyway, as I said, it's entirely your call and I'll abide by your decision.

Those links are fine. Feel free to add them. Don't mind our overzealous contributors ;) There are thousands of volunteers here, all with slightly different perspectives on how Wikipedia "ought" to be (see meta:Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies). I'll leave Dudesleeper a note on his talkpage, reminding him to not bite the newcomers.

Just as an addendum, it would be slightly preferable if you could add to the text of the article, and use the link as a cited-reference (the links would then be less likely to be deleted again in future "cleanups", too). Add a sentence, then after the fullstop place the link within ref tags: <ref>(link here)</ref>. Let me know if I can be of any more help. -- Quiddity (talk) 19:24, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

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October 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. One or more of the external links you added in this edit to Thomas Paine 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. You may wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. PrinceOfCanada-HG (talk) 09:41, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

blocked

Blocked as an advertising-only account. Academic Challenger (talk) 09:45, 4 October 2008 (UTC)