User talk:Beaconofthetruth

September 2020
Hello, I'm OcarinaOfTime. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to Voice acting because they seemed 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. OcarinaOfTime (talk) 15:06, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for blatant attempts to use Wikipedia for spam. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:.

I am trying to work out why you blocked me indefinitely as I do not believe my update was spam. I added two citations relating to relevant information which pointed to an external website.

Errm, your editing before being blocked consisted entirely of changes to articles where you linked to your web site, which solicits business for you, you were not mentioned in those articles, nor are you sufficiently significant to justify being singled out from all the thousands of people in the same line of work for special mention in the articles, and you claim that you don't think it was spam???? Well, what would you think was spam? JBW (talk) 20:16, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

I always considered spam to be unsolicited messages. Maybe I'm wrong in the definition, but aside from that obviously you guys objected to what I did so I hold my hands up as guilty, and I am sorry if this has used up your time. What I was doing was following what was already there as I recognised both voicesuk and voices.com were doing similar things (see below). That doesn't mean to say it is right, but what is acceptable by you guys. I am a newcomer to wikipedia, and I find it pretty confusing what is acceptable and what is not, and I don't know how significant someone should be in order to be included, or indeed have their own page. Should this be after x awards, or perhaps after x scandals?!

Here are two of many examples which I found - "Voices UK Directory of 118 British accents." which is an agency and is in the reference section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English "Voice of the Carolina Hurricanes Chuck Kaiton". Archived from the original on 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-03-18. Again, an agency in the reference section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Kaiton

both of which link to a commercial organisation.


 * You were right about the link at Regional accents of English being unsuitable, and I have removed it; thanks for calling attention to it. I don't have time now to check Chuck Kaiton now, but I'll try to do so when I do have time. However, the mere fact that a reference is "a commercial organisation" does not make it unacceptable. JBW (talk) 22:03, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

OK no problem. As I said, although I am interested in contributing it's not *that* important for me to spend time reading documents and thereon giving you justification. All the best and I wish you all well.