Lawdamages

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March 2015

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. KH-1 (talk) 02:24, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Lawdamages, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

• Policy on neutral point of view
• Guideline on spam
• Guideline on external links
• Guideline on conflict of interest
• FAQ for Organizations

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Theroadislong (talk) 21:44, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

A somewhat more specific summary of certain site policies and guidelines you may find useful

• Assume good faith as much as reasonably possible, and then about half-way past the border for unreasonable possibility. -- This post you made shows a failure to assume good faith. He was obviously talking about someone else ("someone" "his," not "you"). A very simple investigation of Rmarcano's conributions shows that he was unhappy that someone created an article about him, especially since the article creator (who is obviously not KH-1, since Rmarcano referred to him as a different person) has a username that also shows up on a porn site.
• It is recommended that you do not add anything relating to yourself to article space, and it is expressly forbidden to use Wikipedia to promote anything about yourself. Personal websites are generally not allowed in external links. -- If your book is not for sale, then it is not a verifiable source (another possible condition for external links). When it finally does go up for sale, those links would retroactively become advertising. Note however, that books that are self published or from pay-to-print publishers are not accepted as sources here.
• Reliable sources typically include: articles from magazines or newspapers (particularly scholarly journals), or books by recognized authors (basically, books by respected publishers). Online versions of these are usually accepted, provided they're held to the same standards. User generated sources (like Wikipedia) are to be avoided. Self-published sources should be avoided except for information by and about the subject that is not self-serving (for example, citing a company's website to establish something like year of establishment).
• Minor edits are those that add or remove little content, and mainly consists of undoing undeniable vandalism or fixing grammar, spelling, or formatting errors.
• Credentials are irrelevant, noone here cares about them, we will ignore them.
• Noone owns any article here, or even their edits to articles. The text at the bottom of the edit page, right above the "Save page" button basically means that if you don't want someone to change or even remove what you add, then you need to use another site.
• Wikipedia is not a cook-book or instruction manual. -- Or in this case, a law school.

Ian.thomson (talk) 21:57, 23 March 2015 (UTC)