User talk:Allisonhargis

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 * date September 25, 2011, NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Oral History Library

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 * Interview date April 16, 2008, NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) Oral History Library

NAMM links
Hello, Allisonhargis. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, please:


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In any case, please do not use the externalvideo template for these links, which gives them excessive prominence over links to other websites which might be of equal quality and utility. That template is only meant for cases where "readers will expect this type of media in the article" (e.g. if the video is the subject of the article), which does not seem to be the cases for the numerous NAMM links you have been inserting.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 07:16, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

October 2016
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website 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. Theroadislong (talk) 16:12, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Please add appropriate external links!
I just noticed several link to jazz interviews. These are great, please add more. And ask me for help if you need it. Smallbones( smalltalk ) 19:08, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Do not mark major edits as minor
Thank you for your contributions. Please mark your edits as "minor" only if they are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Adding an external link is not a minor edit. Thank you. &mdash;J. M. (talk) 00:31, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Links to outside websites outside such as NAMM as in Arthur Adams
Material like that from NAMM that you kindly shared in the Arthur Adams article is not allowed in the en.wikipedia. The information gained in such edits must be inserted into the text. If the outside material is useful and can not be placed and referenced into the text, then you may place the website in the external links section, but otherwise such links as yours is considered a violation of copyright law. It is why we have such strict rules. Consider the possibility of lawsuits in some situations. I felt the same as yourself some years back, but was convinced that it wasn't worth taking chances, when the same information can be added to the text, painstaking or not. I have never been willing to become an Admin, but if you wish, you can check but I stand by my conviction based on experience. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 01:07, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

What are you doing ?
Can you please explain in further detail regarding your recent edits ? Thanx, -  Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 15:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I too would be rather interested in knowing what you're up to.. -- Samtar talk &middot; contribs 16:17, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

January 2017
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. - Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 16:04, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Yet another NAMM link?
I suspect these were good faith edits, but again, links to NAMM do not follow WP procedure in placing links to outside websites, as they can violate copyright. I've been in hospital for 10 days to undergo two operations, and one of the last things I did was comment upon your addition from NAMM in this article as you did in the Arthur Adams biography. Upon returning, the first article I pulled up I found the same kind of edit to NAMM as before! If you mean well, then please look over your edits and delete any others like this. Then, you can glean the pertinent facts from the website, use them in the article and properly reference it. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 04:44, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

March 2017
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Robin Guitars. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website 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.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  19:50, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Vaughn Wiester. 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.  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  19:53, 21 March 2017 (UTC)