OldCoder

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

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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! Falcon8765 ^(TALK) 18:42, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

October 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Urban Science, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! (talk) 14:23, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

regarding 'advice'

I told "them" that you guys would not let my story (Urban Science) live - only took you a few minutes to find it. Impressive! ("unsourced personal anecdote"). If you want citations, I'd be happy to sign my real name (Gary Huckabone), email address, whatever. But it's not clear how to do so.

As for the Shapefile complaint - if you understood anything about GIS or ESRI shapefiles, you would see that my effort there is a link to allow people to read such files. It's a link to a page for reading shape files. If that's advertising, well, then what is not advertising? OldCoder (talk) 15:16, 25 October 2013 (UTC)