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Also, I'd like to add a note of thanks for adding links to useful information at NPIC. Based on your username, I assume you are affiliated with the website that you're adding links to. This may raise a red flag for some, because of a potential conflict of interest (see Wikipedia's related policies at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:External links). Additionally, usernames that match the names of organizations are generally forbidden (see Wikipedia:Username policy) and you may want to consider switching to a different username to avoid any potential problems (see Wikipedia:Changing username).

Thanks. --Ed (Edgar181) 17:24, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

October 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Kitten 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, 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.
 • npic.orst.edu: Linksearch en - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • MER-C Cross-wiki • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced • COIBot-Local - COIBot-XWiki - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.org • Live link: http://spam.npic.orst.edu
--- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:01, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors; and
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam).

Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you.

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Kitten. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 22:16, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Enough

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. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 18:09, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

This is the only warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits.

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. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 19:45, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Rodent, 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. Anaxial (talk) 20:17, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for spamming or advertising. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|I have been acting in good faith as a representative of the National Pesticide Information Center at Oregon State University. We feel that each link is an appropriate and helpful resource for browsers of each page/entry. Our approach has been, and will continue to be this: We only add links to resources that are specifically related to the topic/page. We're not adding links to our home page, for example. We do have a lot of them, but we're almost done with the backlog. After the initial flurry of new links, we anticipate adding 10-20 links per year as we write new publications. Our Center is primarily funded by the US EPA, and our mission is to make science-based information about pesticides as widely available as possible. If you would prefer we use another approach to meet this mission, we would be happy to use a more appropriate method at your suggestion. Thank you.}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

--Orange Mike | Talk 21:17, 20 October 2010 (UTC)