User talk:ClearChoice

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spammming drugtestingsolutions.com
Links were added to a website, which has been created as a reference tool for help and advice, with relevant topics and citations added to Wikipedia, under relevant sections, and not for self-promotion, an affiliation, or spam, but rather to help readers understand more. Please reconsider. Thank you.

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Cannabis drug testing. 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.  GermanJoe (talk) 17:26, 5 September 2017 (UTC) Links were added to a website, which has been created as a reference tool for help and advice, with relevant topics and citations added to Wikipedia, under relevant sections, and not for self-promotion, an affiliation, or spam, but rather to help readers understand more. Please reconsider. Thank you.

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Drug test. 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. GermanJoe (talk) 17:41, 5 September 2017 (UTC) Links were added to a website, which has been created as a reference tool for help and advice, with relevant topics and citations added to Wikipedia, under relevant sections, and not for self-promotion, an affiliation, or spam, but rather to help readers understand more. Please reconsider. Thank you.

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Drug test. 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. GermanJoe (talk) 18:01, 5 September 2017 (UTC) Links were added to a website, which has been created as a reference tool for help and advice, with relevant topics and citations added to Wikipedia, under relevant sections, and not for self-promotion, an affiliation, or spam, but rather to help readers understand more. Please reconsider. Thank you.

Paid editing
Hello ClearChoice. Your edits look as if you are being paid. Paid promotion is an especially egregious type of conflict of interest (COI) Paid articles should be submitted through the articles for creation process. If you are receiving or expect to receive money for your edits, you are  required by the Wikimedia Terms of Use to disclose your employer, client and affiliation. You can post the disclosure on your user page at User:ClearChoice. The template Paid can be used for this purpose – e.g. in the form:. If I am mistaken – you are not being directly or indirectly compensated for your edits – please state that in response to this message. If you are being paid, please provide the required disclosure. In either case, please do not edit further until you answer this message. Jytdog (talk) 18:12, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi Jytdog. I am not being paid to promote a website, but I am interested in raising awareness and informing individuals about the topics I have linked to. Links were added to a website, which has been created as a reference tool for help and advice, with relevant topics and citations added to Wikipedia, under relevant sections, and not for self-promotion, an affiliation, or spam, but rather to help readers understand more. Please reconsider. Thank you.


 * In other words, you are here to spam. Clearly you are not here to build the encyclopedia. No one said self-promotion. Your response is clearly disingenuous. See message below for more.Dlohcierekim (talk) 18:59, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of your talk page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In that reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.

If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

{{unblock-spamun|Dudleyjn1983|I do not wish to be blocked, so that I may help build the Wikipedia base. I misunderstood the citing process, and therefor had made links to a reference I have used in the past and wanted to share with others. I can see how it was deemed self promotion, so am fine with my current details being closed and my new details added. I will only cite in ways that help Wikipedia to become an even greater source of accurate data. Thanks.