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Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. Stephenb (Talk) 12:07, 10 March 2006 (UTC)Reply

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Hi James - Thanks for your message. In some cases your links lead me to a page that required a login (which is therefore inappropriate); in others to pages that appeared inappropriate for an article (e.g. activated carbon in soot as well as activated carbon); those that did not need a login lead to a page that primarily listed a set of commercial links - whether this is your company's commerical interest or theirs (and I suspect your company gets paid for these links?), the links are therefore still commercial. You also (a) added no edit summary and (b) didn't indicate that the links had any specific use to the article (each was just labelled "Chemical Data and Suppliers"). I'm afraid I'd still consider the additions spam, but you're welcome to try and find a second opinion. Stephenb (Talk) 14:50, 10 March 2006 (UTC)Reply