User talk:Allen Mesch

November 2012
Hello, I'm BusterD. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Battle of Chancellorsville, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. BusterD (talk) 17:19, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Battle of Malvern Hill. 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 page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. BusterD (talk) 17:19, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Battle of Cold Harbor. 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. BusterD (talk) 17:22, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Battle of Franklin (1864), 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. Binksternet (talk) 17:25, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Conflict of interest and applying inappropriate external links
It seems your sole contributions to Wikipedia involve adding links to petrostrategies.org and civil-war-journeys.org, both of which someone with your name claims to have an association with. Stop. Wikipedia doesn't exist to enlarge the number of hits to your websites. Even if you are acting in what you feel is the best of intentions, your actions seem to be to direct traffic to websites you administer. Stop adding such links, or you will find yourself blocked (and possibly the websites blacklisted). BusterD (talk) 17:29, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Removal of Links
The external links rules are so unevenly applied as to be ridiculous.

There are many links that provide the same type of information that my links provide.

On the Chancellorsville page, I saw a link to someone who was promting his book. That seems rather obvious.

I am only telling people about a page that provides free downloadable images.

Why do you have the right to remove my links?

Some of the links were posted some time ago.

Feel free to remove them as you feel appropriate.

I do believe that the best way to deal with this in a consistent fashion is to remove all external links.