CAR Online

April 2008

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 Porsche 959 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. swaq 14:56, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Porsche 911. 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. swaq 15:04, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Porsche 911. 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. Please discuss additions of links on talk pages before adding any more. Thanks. swaq 15:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

I will stop posting links (at this stage) to external pages, however i am completely confused as to why the content links are being blocked i have aimed to focus the link as directly as possible to the subject pages e.g. where there are pages that relate to the 959/911 etc i have added direct links to pages on our site that would be of use to the reader on wikipedia, however i keep receiving emails claiming this is spam. I note there are on some of these pages other magazines applying content of similar reference and yet these are not being rejected. I am new to wikipedia so could use some solid advice, as i thought i was following the guidelines as per the guideline pages correctly, what am i missing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CAR Online (talk • contribs) 16:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

In general we try to limit the number of external links on articles. A link should really only be added if it adds something unique and relevant that the wiki article could not provide by itself. See Wikipedia:External links for what is appropriate. It is fine to use articles as sources if you are adding content, but you shouldn't just add links for the sake of adding links. It reflects poorly on your intentions when every article addition is an external link to the same site. By the way, I recommend signing your comments with "~~~~". swaq 16:13, 29 April 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 Audi TT, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from all of Wikipedia. swaq 16:35, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

That's great i was just typing a response particularly in reference to the 'stop' that you have just sent me but the whole thing was deleted due to the stop response coming through. Guess that answers my question, that supplying the user with applicable content and 'brand new' review and information is not allowed, presumably this 'must' be put within the content block rather than supplying an external link. I do notice, on my journey through these pages that there are several external sites that are not official porsche sites but have been allowed to add external links all over, is this because they are adding content to the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by CAR Online (talk • contribs) 16:40, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

If every magazine/newspaper/blog/etc. article that talks about a car was linked to in a wiki article then the external links section would be very bloated. External links currently on articles may or may not be appropriate. It is possible that they should be removed as well. swaq 17:03, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok i guess the best thing to do is have some links on our own built page, that is purely relevant to the website itself?? the other links i refer to are all over the pages i have been looking at and have been there for weeks, guess they slipped through the net then. I will refrain from entering anymore external links.CAR Online (talk) 17:15, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

November 2008

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Ferrari F430. 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. swaq 16:51, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Blocked

It was consistently pointed out to you above that this kind of spamming is unacceptable, yet you've re-added the same kind of link to the same kind of article. I've blocked this account indefinitely. --barneca (talk) 20:11, 10 November 2008 (UTC)