User talk:Contristo

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Whosyourjudas (talk) 05:17, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

January 2010
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for spam, advertising, or promotion. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:37, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I unblocked you because you indicated that you understood what linkspamming was and that you did not intend to do it again. Apparently I let the spirit of the holiday season affect me and I fell for your "oh poor me I've been treated so badly by these abusive administrators" routine. If your only goal here is to add links to a particular website, which I can only assume at this point you have some financial interest in given your persistence in doing so, you will not be allowed to edit Wikipedia. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:46, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

==Obscure Sound== A tag has been placed on Obscure Sound, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because it is an article about a certain web site, blog, forum, or other community of web users that does not assert the importance or significance of that web location. Please read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles, as well as notability guidelines for websites. Please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources which verify their content.

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== December 2009 ==

Welcome to Wikipedia. One or more of the external links you added in this edit to the page The Knife do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. You may wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Netalarm  happy holidays!  23:49, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in this edit to The Clientele. Inappropriate links include links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that serve as advertising or promotion. Thank you. Netalarm  happy holidays!  23:57, 25 December 2009 (UTC)

Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Junior (album). If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Netalarm  happy holidays!  00:02, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you add inappropriate external links, as you did with this edit to Foreign Born. Netalarm  happy holidays!  00:06, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest this block by adding the text below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first.

== Vandalism? ==


 * [[Image:Pictogram_voting_comment.svg|15px]] COMMENT   I would like to see you be able to have your block rescinded. However, for that to happen, you need to understand the policies that your edits today violated and why the block was applied. Your edits violated: WP:RS, WP:EL, and WP:ELNO. Specifically, when you look at the About page at Obscure Sound, it is a blog written and maintained by one man. Despite being generally informative and well-written, as per WP:RS and WP:SELFPUBLISH, blogs are generally not considered to satisfy Wikipedia’s reliable sources policies. If it were a blog that is part of an actual media company (e.g., the ArtsBeat blog at The New York Times), or written by a recognized authority, then it might be considered a reliable source. At first glance, I think that Obscure Sound does not qualify. (Nor do I think that The Arts Section satisfies the requirements.) Finally, as regards its placement in the External Links section of a wikiarticle, at WP:ELNO#11, the policy is that such links to blogs are not permitted, “except those written by a recognized authority.” Is Mike Mineo — the author at Obscure Sound — a recognized authority? Nowhere on that website, that I can find, does he provide his C.V. so that we can determine this. (For instance, a blog by President Carter on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a blog by a recognized authority.) Finally, you were blocked because after receiving your first two warnings — which specifically told you that your edits violated WP:EL — you persisted in continuing to edit in the same manner. You should have begun a discussion with the person who issued the warnings on his talkpage. The block was for persisting after receiving warnings to stop. If you want to have your block reversed, you need to show that you understand this when using the the, or your request will be denied by the Administrator handling it. Be sure to read WP:GAB first. —  Spike  Toronto  00:53, 26 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting comment.svg Note:   Contristo, you probably do not want to have two unblock requests on your page (I am referring to the one above (&uarr;) and the one below (&darr;)). The reason I say this is that the unblocking admin may only look at the one above, and that will not get you unblocked. You want him/her to focus on the one below. So, I suggest removing the coding from your initial response above (&uarr;). Whether you leave your comments or not is up to you. But, I would remove the coding, namely the    at the end. Lastly, it can take a while sometimes for unblock requests to be processed when there is either a backlog or a holiday. Be patient. Once you have your privileges restored, if you ever have a question about contributions that you would like to make to the Wikipedia project, feel free to contact me at my talk page. Good luck! —  Spike  Toronto  02:04, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

== Blueboy96 ==

January 2010
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing because your account is being used only for spam, advertising, or promotion. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:37, 24 January 2010 (UTC)