User talk:AvBuyer

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Linkspam warning
Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 12:43, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Please stop adding commercial or personal-website links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --chris.lawson 18:33, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Helpme request
--AvBuyer 09:32, 20 September 2006 (UTC) Hello, you used the helpme tag. How may I help you? When you've asked your question, please put the tag back so we know to check back. Alternatively, you can join the Wikipedia Bootcamp IRC channel to get real-time help. (Use the web-based client to get instant access.) Luna Santin 09:34, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi there Luna, I'm very new to this. I tried to add some content yesterday, but didn't manage to, so instead added links to the articles and some product information (all about the aviation industry) as this was the only thing I seemed to manage to do. I've now been warned about spamming, which wasn't really my intention, so I am worried I will get banned! Ohps. I do think we have relevant and unbiased material so hopfully things will be okay.

I've been told that I should discuss what I am going to add before I do it, but I am not really sure how to do this? I've gone to the relevant page and clicked on the discussion heading, but there isn't an edit button - so what do I do???

Help - confused!

--AvBuyer 09:41, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Discussion pages can be edited like any other page on wikipedia, by clicking "edit this page".
 * You're not going to get banned unless you really really deserve it.
 * It's not clear which article(s) caused other wikipedians to ask you to stop the "link spam", so it's hard to judge what the problem is. Equendil Talk 11:02, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * As a rule though, avoid adding unecessary external links to articles, Wikipedia doesn't need to list every single web page about a given subject, leave that to Google. Equendil Talk 11:15, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Upon reviewing your contributions, it would appear you added links on many articles to a *commercial* website "AvBuyer", which also happens to be your nickname, it's not very difficult to see why this was considered advertising :) Equendil Talk 11:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I tried to edit the pages, but wasn't very confident. I therefore put in the links to our non-commercial pages ie. to pages with product specifications such as www.avbuyer.com/AircraftSales/PerformanceDataResults.asp?ID=87 as this was along the lines of what airliners.net have done - so I thought it would be okay.  We also have a number of articles such as "the Cessna Caravan Story" which I thought would be interesting to readers of the Cessna 208 page.  I thought the article was too long to be included as content so I added it as a link.  Really I would like to article to appear under "References" on that page, but I am not sure how to do that.  Finally did I pick a poor nickname?  How do I change it???  Also - how do I know if you are getting to read this???

Cheers --AvBuyer 13:17, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Hello, sorry about the fuss, I understand how mistakes are made, and how difficult it is to follow all the policies we have here. As a new user I would direct you to maybe check out a few areas that would help. Introduction is a very good place to start, followed by the Tutorial. After that, based of your intertest in aircraft, you may want to join WikiProject Aircraft, which is a group of users with like interests. I see you've created Learjet 45, which is great. I'll now take this opportunity to help cleanup that article, usuing Wikiedia's guidlines and policies, and by using the information found at the aircraft project. Check out the changes in the article to see what I mean. And again, welcome. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 17:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

P.S. To follow exactly what I'm doing to Learjet 45 just hit the "history" tab along the top of the page. For help on using that page see Help:Page history. - Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 18:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC)