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Hello, Dweeezil! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! SpikeToronto 07:06, 9 December 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images • create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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— SpikeToronto 07:06, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

December 2009

Welcome. Please stop inserting nearly identical text into different articles. The text you are inserting is a clear advertisement for the group and adds little to the article. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 05:55, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. One or more of the external links you added in this edit to the page Starbucks 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. You may wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. SpikeToronto 07:04, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in this edit to Starbucks. Inappropriate links include links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that serve as advertising or promotion. Thank you. SpikeToronto 07:09, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Climate Counts edits

Hi. I may have explained the problem poorly above. The majority of the addition is spent advertising the organization. This may seem reasonable since the organization is somewhat obscure and the reader wouldn't be likely to know them. But if the organization is obscure, how much does its opinion of the subject of the article add to the article? These edits are equivalent to adding "Joe Blow, a New Hampshire politician running for Mayor of Itscoldhere on a platform of Mom and Apple Pie, gave the company two stars for quality" or "Joe's Plumbing, a company dedicated to repairing frozen pipes in the greater St. Paul area, rated them 6 or 9 for speed of service." The opinion of an obscure group fails WP:WEIGHT and does not belong in the article. If you want to add to the environmental section of these articles, there are many better known organizations which have similar opinions. Or, better yet, you could find a reliable secondary source which references the various primary source data points and summarize that source for the articles. Celestra (talk) 14:38, 9 December 2009 (UTC)