QuoVadisLive

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August 2008

1. 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 City of London‎ 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. Kbthompson (talk) 16:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
2. Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Belfast‎. 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. Kbthompson (talk) 16:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
3. Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Dún Laoghaire. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Kbthompson (talk) 16:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
4. This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Bilbao‎, 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 potentially being penalized by search engines. Kbthompson (talk) 16:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
5. Hello Kbthompson. First of all thanks for the welcome note. The reason we've added those external links to those city page after reading the Wikipedia:EL is because we were thinking the information their bring are kinda missing in wikipedia and that information is correlated to the city. Eventually that should be open to discussion. Did you have a look a the pages whose links we added before removing them? Anyhow, it wasn't our intention to cause any inconvenience here. We just want to contribute somehow. Apologies for any inconvenience we might have caused. Regards, --QuoVadisLive (talk) 08:49, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

• No problems, that's why we issue warnings that direct you to the kind of external links that are permitted within wikipedia, and I didn't block you immediately - which can happen when a large number of external links are added at the same time. Specifically, wikipedia is not a travelogue, or a catalogue of services and events. External links should only be used when they add substantially to the understanding of the article; and generally they will be removed fairly quickly when they don't. Good luck with your enterprise, however I find it difficult to envisage circumstances where your site is something wikipedia would find appropriate to link to. You could initiate discussion on individual article talk pages to get the views of other editors, but I think you would face a considerable struggle to find acceptance for them. cheers Kbthompson (talk) 09:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
• Thanks Kbthompson. We really think the events content could add some value to city pages. However we reckogn it's not up to us to "judge". We can only suggest. That's why we've opened a new discussion topic in one of the city pages, Bilbao "What's going on in Bilbao?" after adding again the external link to Bilbao's external link list, where we briefly explain how such external link could contribute and see what people think. For the moment, and in order to avoid any inconvenience, that's the only external link we add. See what others think of it. Thanks again for your messages and your guidelines Kbthompson.--QuoVadisLive (talk) 09:25, 12 August 2008 (UTC)