Tonyspatti

Typo redirect "314th Infantry Regiment A.E.F."

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May 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 Glassblowing 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. Thank you. Teapotgeorge^Talk 09:13, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Advice from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PROMO#How_not_to_be_a_spammer

Contribute cited text, not bare links. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a link farm. If you have a source to contribute, first contribute some facts that you learned from that source, then cite the source. Don't simply direct readers to another site for the useful facts; add useful facts to the article, then cite the site where you found them. You're here to improve Wikipedia—not just to funnel readers off Wikipedia and onto some other site, right? Regards Teapotgeorge^Talk 20:45, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

June 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. If you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Glassblowing, 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. Teapotgeorge^Talk 09:39, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Glassblowing. 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. Teapotgeorge^Talk 09:44, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Glassblowing. 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. 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. Teapotgeorge^Talk 18:09, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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Teapotgeorge, you need to respond to the many questions which have been asked on the NoticeBoard which you created, not here. Tonyspatti (talk) 20:54, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Tonyspatti, you are certainly within your rights to discuss the matter, and to ask for the link to be included. However, you cannot continue to reinsert the link simply because you believe it should be present. Furthermore, you are now in danger of violating the three-revert rule with regard to this link. Please do not restore it without a solid consensus supporting said inclusion. Thank you in advance. --Ckatz^chat_spy 23:19, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

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Ckatz you have been formally requested on the NoticeBoard to document what you state is a "trend" on the NoticeBoard (please cite USER and UTC).

The purpose of the NoticeBoard, I believe is to provide community input into the decision making process. Instead you make changes to the article without contributing to the NoticeBoard and Explaining your rationale.

Formatting

Please don't use equal signs to separate posts. The usual way we distinguish posts is by indenting them using one or more colons (:) at the beginning of the first line. See WP:TOPPOST for guidelines.   Will Beback  talk  01:01, 11 June 2010 (UTC)