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May 2011

Hello Shingleton. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka, 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:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

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. Gyrofrog (talk) 02:08, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

August 2011

Many of your edits – actually, all of them since July 2008 – added external links to the website "overgrownpath.com". This alone gives the impression that you were editing on behalf of that website. However, in the case of this edit to Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka, you linked to an interview posted that same day and conducted by someone whose name is similar to your own Wikipedia username. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:46, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

That link to my website is on my user page (see WP:UPYES), not in an article, and there's a big difference. Please see WP:EL, and WP:EL#ADV in particular:

"It is true that a link from Wikipedia to an external site may drive Web traffic to that site. But in line with Wikipedia policies, you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent—even if WP guidelines seem to imply that it may otherwise be linked. When in doubt, you may go to the talk page and let another editor decide. This suggestion is in line with WP's conflict-of-interest guidelines."

Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:27, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

If another account with no evident relationship to the website had posted the link (or perhaps two), I might not have thought anything else about it. In contrast, you've linked to your own website no less than 26 times, which raises a flag. I'll thank you to stop referring to my efforts as "myopic". I'd suggest convincing a different editor that there's nothing wrong with what you've been doing. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:55, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Fine, you think I'm myopic, I think you've been WP:SPAMming. Again: I'd suggest convincing a different editor that there's nothing wrong with what you've been doing. Try Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:23, 2 August 2011 (UTC)