Connieb8745

Nomination of Deck railing for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Deck railing is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deck railing until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion template from the top of the article. Eeekster (talk) 04:17, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Connieb8745, I'm sorry no one welcomed you yet, I thought I should remedy that. At a glance, I think you did a fine job with the Deck railing article, although it could do with clearer identification of the sources (name of webpage, publisher of webpage, author if any, date of publication and retrieval), and since it's been nominated for deletion, any further refs you can add will be helpful, especially non-commercial ones (from books, for example). I hope the links above are helpful, please don't hesitate to ask questions, there's a bit of a steep learning curve here. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:00, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

August 2013

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Yintan  00:13, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 day for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  Legoktm (talk) 01:32, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Hello, Please stop deleting useful additions to Wikipedia. Take a look at some of the pages that I updated. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallulah_Falls,_Georgia has an external reference link that goes to a 404 page. How is this helpful to users of this encyclopedia? All of my edits were specific to the Wikipedia entries in question. No spam for viagra here. So please, be a little bit more careful in what you call spam. ThanksConnieb8745 (talk) 02:40, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

January 2014

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Hello, I'm Jim1138. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Little Tennessee River because it seemed inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 19:26, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

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. Jim1138 (talk) 20:26, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

who are you to determine what is spam???? I added relevant content to the encyclopedia. These are very small articles and the information I am linking is all written by people who have been to the places in question. Why did you not delete the new articles also? Because they are not spam. Connieb8745 (talk) 01:18, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

It's a slippery slope of whether or not they're spam. They are informative and provide background information beyond the article. The problem is the site belongs to the Rabun County Convention and Visitors Bureau Authority. On the one hand, yes, they have authoritative information. On the other hand, the presence of the "Dine & Wine" and "Shop Around" links create that appearance of the site existing for promotional purposes.

In my opinion as an editor, the links should be discussed to see whether the merits of the additional information outweigh the commercial nature of the links. Personally, I lean toward including the links; however, a wider discussion should be held—probably on a case-by-case basis, but the Clayton and Black Rock articles seem like good one to start with.

In my opinion as an administrator, I would endorse unblocking your account if you agree to discuss the links and let other editors add them only if/when consensus is reached to include them. However, I am abstaining from acting directly on your block—and I may tread carefully in discussions—because broadly construed, I have a conflict of interest with one or more entities in the Ninth District, and even though my intent is to keep Wikipedia a neutrally-presented encyclopedia free of bias and advertising, I don't want to let any appearance creep in that I'm acting to promote a community, business, or other entity. —C.Fred (talk) 17:35, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Unclear on the concept

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.

OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 02:23, 9 January 2014 (UTC)