User talk:Cocoa Lounge

Well I have better things to do with my time than play link tag with the Wikipedia Gods.Clearly there are serious control issues going here where TRUE African American content is concerned.

Though I have informed you several times that several sites listed weren't African American they remain.And 2 sites are clearly spam as they lead to the same place and are spammed all over this site.

The white nationalist website Storm Front has a whole page deicated to it and yet a link to an actual African American online community listed in it's proper place gets deleted and called spam. Puleeeeze.

I suppose Storm Front, Black Voices and Black Planet... 3 sites domonated by white racists are more in tune with the image Wikipedia want to project.

Cheers

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I have seen many things on Wikipedia for years that could clearly be spam, however I see Wikipedia as a place of learning.I view this as the ultimate School. And though some of the things I have seen here offend me... such as the obvious self promotion of the Strorm Front white nationalist website, I also know that there is a need to know such things.

Again, my SMALL contribution is exactly what Wikipedia asks us to do if need be, and that is make something better and correct.Adding Cocoa Lounge... and African American Online Community gives that list something that it is sorely missing... CREDIBILITY.

Black Planet and Black Voices are NOT African American Online Communities and African Americans online are notorious for avoiding those forums as very few if any African Americans post there at all.

Cheers

Image:Cocoalounge.jpg has been listed for deletion
I hope this works.

I have been a visitor to Wikipedia for sometime now but primarily as a guest.Well a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit the African American section and there I came across the Online Communities, of which I am a member of quite a few.

I was floored to see only 3 Real African American communities as Black Planet and Black Voices are neither.Adding Cocoa Lounge is not spam or self promotion, as I don't own it.Adding Cocoa Lounge and several others I plan to add are adding to the validity of that list.

If one is looking for true info and insight into the African American experience through a forum, they should at least be given an accurate list.

As a visitor here I see plenty of SPAM and SELF PROMOTION and wonder why you chose to seek me out for deletion, especially when the Online Communities list has a site added that is a duplicate and obvious spam.

My small contribution to Wikipedia... in an area I am quite familiar with as I am African American has been in keeping with the Wikipedia standards and will continue to do so in the future.

Cheers


 * I and many others seek out and eliminate every piece of spam and self-promotion we can. If you know of any others, please report them to me or anyone else.


 * There may indeed be a place or two where reporting one of these forums is appropriate. If you think so, propose your change on the talk page and seek consensus from several editors before adding it.  But Wikipedia is not a link repository (WP:NOT) and doesn't need to list every single site of a certain type, such as all African American forums. Jdavidb talk &bull; contribs]] 02:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

If someone actually sees this message, can you please let me know as I have no idea *blushing*