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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. OhNoitsJamie Talk 02:27, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. 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. OhNoitsJamie Talk 15:56, 4 February 2013 (UTC)
How is it spam when I'm updating Wikipedia with correct information? We are a legitimate new organization affiliated with both major television and radio networks. Just because we aren't ABC or USA Today you automatically consider us spam? I don't appreciate your continued harassment to myself or organization. I know you have a reputation for this in the past.
You have been blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may place {{unblock}} on your user talk page to have the block reviewed. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia.
Notice of Reliable Sources Noticeboard discussion
editHello, TodaysNews. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is backstageol.com.The discussion is about the topic Pope Benedict XVI. Thank you. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 19:26, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
Richard-of-Earth - Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I was attempting to make an addition to the said article when the first time I clicked "saved" the edit didn't go through because I presume another person was editing the same article at the same time. The second time I went in to make the change I thought I had pressed (ctrl+v) to make the changes and link the BackstageOL article. In the long run I completely screwed up the edit because I was in a rush to add the changes since the story was just breaking and since I had acdiddently deleted the ABC News article and didn't know how to find it's link to put it back into the page. Again, sorry I still consider myself new to Wikipedia and don't mean to discredit or abuse this wonderful resource in anyway. P.S. Is there an article that teaches new Wikipedia users on "HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO WIKIPEDIA?" Thanks for understanding...
- Wikipedia:Community portal. Of course you are blocked, so you will need to get unblocked. You will need to promise to not add links to BackstageOL article or website in your editing. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 18:37, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
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Request reason:
I promise from now on to only use links to sites other than BackstageOL.com. I'll only use links from major media outlets such as Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN, etc. Thank you for reviewing this. Also, how do I get my website off the blacklist? It's affecting my legitimate Google Search traffic that my business and livelihood is based on. I'm sorry I didn't know that Wikipedia doesn't allow citations from blogs or smaller website like mine. No one ever informed me of this information. If needed, I'll never post on Wikipedia ever again. Best, TodaysNews
Decline reason:
Declined for lack of response. I can't resolve the contradiction between a promise not to post links to that website and a request to allow links to that website. You're not going to be unblocked until you can convince administrators that you intend to edit within policy; your request here doesn't do that, as the responses below indicate. UltraExactZZ Said ~ Did 16:55, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
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- You (as well as the other account that was blocked as a spam-only account) should have heeded warnings earlier. There is no compelling reason to remove your site from the blacklist at this time. OhNoitsJamie Talk 20:20, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
- You weren't warned, you say? No, your previous account had this straightforward warning: This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. 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. MER-C 09:30, 7 August 2011 (UTC) - since you persisted, you're now blacklisted. And we don't remove sites from blacklist on their owners' requests - only established contributors can requests it, and only when there's an encyclopedic need to add a link to the site. Max Semenik (talk) 20:36, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
- If you are not going to post links to your website here again, I don't see how having it in the Wikipedia blacklist would have any effect on your Google search ranking. -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 15:09, 15 February 2013 (UTC)