Martyjmch

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Advice

You have added a lot of external links to www.gats-inc.com, which I'm guessing is your own website. You should read Wikipedia:External links, and How not to be a spammer before continuing. When you're placing links to your own site, it is very easy to inadvertently stray from working to improve Wikipedia into spamming. People have an "itchy trigger finger" for spam. If your linking behavior looks like spamming, you will likely find that your edits begin to be reverted very quickly. --Srleffler 22:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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External links

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Spectral line do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. Veinor ^{(talk to me)} 15:33, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:GATS logo2.jpg

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Notability of GATS, Inc

A tag has been placed on GATS, Inc, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable.

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Alex valavanis 17:23, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

External links

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Infrared. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 policy 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Han-Kwang 17:06, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Black body. 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. Han-Kwang 20:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image (Image:GATS logo2.jpg)

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Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Martyjmch for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page.

Blocked

You have been indefinitely blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for extensive spamming and abusing multiple accounts. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below.

Unblocked

Per our discussion on email, your account has been unblocked and you should be able to edit again. If not, email me and let me know. Please abide by the terms we discussed: discuss proposed external links on the article talk page before inserting, respect the external links and promotional material, and use only one account. Happy editing. MastCell ^Talk 03:32, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

External links to your website

From reading your talk page, I see that you have already been blocked and then unblocked for adding links to your page at www.spectralcalc.com. Yet you are still doing it, as you did at HITRAN. Take this as a last warning. If you keep adding these links, you will be re-blocked. Your site is a commercial subscription site, the 'free' parts non-withstanding. --Chuck Sirloin 21:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you, I appreciate the warning. The external link I recently added to the HITRAN page was done with agreement and knowledge of the HITRAN group, and does not promote any commercial website -- rather it is promoting the HITRAN data, which are the topic of the article. I am a contractor working for NASA, and this websiste is the place that we want people to go for these data. The data are completely and freely available to the public here without registration or subscription. In fact essentially everything on the website is freely accessible. The site is maintained to promote NASA remote sensing programs. The HITRAN coordinators are happy to have another repository sharing the data. My link provided the easiest public access (yes, it is completely free) to the data, as well as useful visualization tools and formatting options. Before I added it, I carefully reviewed the policy on links again, and came to the conculsion that this would clearly classify as an appropriate and useful link. Nevertheless, I will not add it again unless I have agreement from the Wikipedia community. Please let me know either way what your thoughts are. --mm 03:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

You say that you added the link with "agreement and knowledge" of the HITRAN group, but I don't see any such discussion on the talk page. If you mean the actual HITRAN group, then, no offense, but anyone can claim anything on the internet, but it doesn't make it so. --Chuck Sirloin 12:57, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

In addition, it is not up to the HITRAN group to decide what does and does not belong on Wikipedia. Han-Kwang (t) 13:44, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Agreed, to both. The right thing would be to post for discussion. That's where the HITRAN group, and more importantly everyone in the community, can weigh in. Thanks for your comments, and guidance. --mm 13:24, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

October 2007

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Infrared spectroscopy, 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. Seriously, stop linking to your website. Its a conflict of interest and SPAM. Chuck Sirloin 18:38, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Can we discuss this? I honestly don't think this is spam. The site is all about infrared spectroscopy and remote sensing. It's substantive and pertinent to the topic, and adds a great deal of depth and value I think. The fact that I've been associated with the site seems to be the problem, but that seems rather simplistic as a criterion. In discussion with the Wikipedia Administrators, it was requested that I post any external links to the talk pages first. I did this, and came back one month later to find that nobody voiced any objections. Exactly what guideline does this violate? --mm 18:59, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

It is spam because you stand to make money off of referrals to your site from wikipedia. Your association with the site represents a conflict of interest. There is already an external link to a NASA-supported site. Your link does not add anything to the article. If people are looking for more calculators they can use google to find them. --Chuck Sirloin 19:12, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your prompt reply. Let me clarify a few things and I think we might come to an agreement. First, I don't make any money from the site. Secondly, my affiliation with the site is coincidental, and more importantly, according to the guidelines, potentially permissible: 'If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interest guidelines." Regarding adding value to the article, it clearly does, and this is what motivates me to put it here. Visualizing examples of infrared spectra is about as relevant as possible, I think. Your last point, that it shouldn't be allowed because it can be found on Google, well, I don't think you really mean that. That would disqualify nearly everything in Wikipedia. Finally, I can guarantee the person who added the "Science of Spectroscopy" site is affiliated with that site, and that link adds nearly nothing of real value, and is also found in a Google search. Yet that is apparently OK. Based on this, it seems that your issue is with me, not the content. Again, if you could explain how this violates any specific term of service or editorial guideline, I would appreciate it. --mm 19:41, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

My problem is definitely NOT with you. It is with the site being a commercial site that sells subscriptions. I am not the only one who has had a problem with this link as shown above in this talk page. I stand by my assertion that it is spam, but if a consensus is reached with other editors that it is not spam, I will abide by it. I also stand by my assertion that you have a conflict of interest in promoting links to the site, but again, will abide by a consensus from other editors. --Chuck Sirloin 20:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Amen. Martyjmch, you seem to be very selective in how you read the Wikipedia guidelines: "it was requested that I post any external links to the talk pages first." -- no, you must post them to the talk pages and then just wait until some other editor (i.e., not a sockpuppet) decides that the link is worthy of inclusion. I don't see how you could possibly say that mentioning the link on a talk page and then adding it to the article page is in line with the guidelines. Han-Kwang (t) 08:31, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate you both taking time to reply. Yes, you're right that subscriptions are sold at this site. That alone may be enough grounds for exclusion, although I do think that readers would benefit from it and that it adds to the content in a meaningful way. Your suggestion that others should be the ones to add it makes good sense. I was way overzealous in the past and added this link to many pages, and obvioiusly developed a bad repuation. Anyway, let's let it be -- this two-to-one vote is sufficient. --mm 15:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes

Hi. I have cleanup plans for List of atmospheric radiative transfer codes, see the talk page there. Since you have worked on the article, I would like you to take part in the discussion on how to improve it. --Gerrit ^CUTEDH 10:05, 5 July 2010 (UTC)