User talk:Casty~enwiki

External link guidelines, WP:EL
Thank you for your recent contributions. Please keep in mind, external links should be within the bounds of the external link guidelines: WP:EL. You might be overlinking the design dictionary. Most of the articles you link contain less information than the Wikipedia articles linked from. Repeatedly linking the same website (especially when it isn't always appropriate in terms of content) is sometimes viewed as a form of spam (WP:SPAM). Please reconsider adding the link to such a great extent. Nposs 04:03, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

September 2009
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 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. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. 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. MrOllie (talk) 11:09, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Answer to Ollie
Hi guys,

I had not noticed this recent message from Mr Ollie. I am reading it for the first time.

I am not affiliated with the websites that I use to complete my contribution to Wikipedia. When I choose a website for the External Links my criteria are: 1. Choosing a site that does not sell products 2. Choosing a site that has illustrations 3. Choosing a site that ha relevant content I also take into consideration the standard guidelines (example: no pornography, no racism, no hate ecc).

The only two websites I know that do not sell products are designdictionary.co.uk and designindex.it, but I agreed with Jossy about not using always the same site, so I started using only designindex.it that is a very good resource too (I think).

I have checked the Whois database to find out who the owners of these two sites are, to make sure that they do not belong to the same person. You can check it yourself and you will find out that they belong to different owners.

If you know some websites that qualify better than designindex.it for the design section please give me the links. I am happy to use them instead. What I need is just some good links to make my contribution more interesting.

Thanks

Casty

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Casty. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Casty~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 22:51, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 11:25, 22 April 2015 (UTC)