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Hello, Neil Goodwin, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Marlborough, Wiltshire, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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Possible conflict of interest

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Please read WP:COI and if you have an as yet undisclosed connection with MARLBOROUGH.NEWS please disclose it here. Your username and edits to Marlborough, Wiltshire suggest that you might have such a connection. It would appear that your account is for the single purpose "upload information about our volunteer organisation" [1] please see WP:SPA and WP:ADV. Best wishes.SovalValtos (talk) 04:23, 4 April 2021 (UTC) I'm none the wiser as to what this means. Let's keep us off the Marlborough Wikipedia page, I don't want us to be in any way connected to the 'marlborough-townsite.co.uk', which is the line above, while it did lead to a (now dead) very commercial Marlborough site that charged for every entry. We are quite different and our mission is to promote the town at no cost to any of our ditorial or news entries, although we do take advertising revenue which covers the cost of keeping the site going whilst also giving back funds to the community to groups that genuinely need funding. This includes local sports clubs as well who perform a valuable function across the community. Most donations/grants we give we never publicise, that's not how we work. but Wikipedia still regard us as demanding a listing for 'advertising' and 'promotion' whilst ignoring every other site/medium that actually does. WikiHypocrisy in extremis......... "Wikipocrisy" - sounds better!— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:2609:BC01:51AC:247D:9F31:EEB2 (talk) 10:19, 4 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Wikipedia's policy on external links is that they should be kept to a minimum and not be promotional. In light of the sheer number of links in that section, your best bet for editing there is to remove any which appear to be dead, tangential or otherwise not enhancing the article's content. Note that the official website of Marlboro is already at the top of the list.--Quisqualis (talk) 16:45, 4 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, Neil Goodwin. Your question has been answered at the Teahouse Q&A board. Feel free to reply there!
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