User talk:Crrnorthwestern

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Novangelis (talk) 16:19, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
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I have some questions regarding contributing to Wikipedia. I also have some questions about asking questions (is there real-time help?).
 * With this template you don't get real-time help. You get help with maybe a little delay. For getting real-time help come into the chat by clicking on the following connect-link: . mabdul 17:28, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Blocked
Welcome to Wikipedia. Because we have a policy against usernames that give the impression that the account represents a group, organization or website, I have blocked this account; please take a moment to create a new account with a username that represents only you. You should also read our conflict of interest guideline. If your username doesn't represent a group, organization or website, you may appeal this username block by adding the text below this notice. Thank you. JohnCD (talk) 17:36, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

I have blocked this account for two reasons, which may answer some of your questions:
 * Wikipedia acounts must be for individuals only, who are personally responsible for them, and usernames which are those of groups or organizations are not permitted. Your username and edits make clear that you are editing for the Center for Reproductive Research at Northwestern University. You are welcome to set up a new account which will represent only you, but first please read the rest of this message.
 * Your purpose here appears to be to work through the alphabet bulk-adding links to a publication of the Center for Reproductive Research at Northwestern University. This is considered spamming, and is not allowed - see the policy on external links. Wikipedia is extremely resistant to being used for any kind of promotion - see also the policy against editing with a conflict of interest. Attempts at spamming are so frequent that we have automatic systems to detect them, and standard warning messages such as:
 * [[Image:Information.svg|25px|alt=|link=]] 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. 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 article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.
 * Persistent spamming may result in the target website being blacklisted from all the Wikimedia projects.

The links from the Welcome message above will tell you more about contributing; you may find the New contributors' help page useful, and (towards the bottom) it links to an IRC channel where you may be able to get real-time answers though, as everyone here is a volunteer, response times cannot be guaranteed. If you set up a new, personal account you can use helpme again, or ask questions at the WP:Help desk.

Regards, JohnCD (talk) 17:41, 28 September 2011 (UTC)