User talk:Discoverbooks

March 2022
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 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.  MrOllie (talk) 19:55, 3 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Agreed with MrOllie. Also, list articles like this are not the place for additional information -- that belongs in the articles that they refer to.
 * Please also take a look at our conflict of interest policy. --Macrakis (talk) 20:16, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. MrOllie (talk) 21:10, 3 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I guess I'm confused. I'm not trying to spam or promote. I saw a page I knew something about and tried to update it. The second time I added no links - just information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Discoverbooks (talk • contribs)


 * Sentences such as 'The Book People can be found online, at one of our pop-up shops at your workplace, and at your children’s school when our book fair or unique book bus visits' are clearly not neutral. Did you copy and paste that from somewhere? If so see WP:COPYVIO. Also, listing your own store is not appropriate, see WP:COI. - MrOllie (talk) 21:42, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining in more detail. I was trying to explain every bookstore's specialty. I did add ours in because it wasn't listed, but I didn't do anything different to ours than I did to others. I played fair, but I understand now what you are saying. The punctuation on this page is awful as is, but I won't touch it anymore.

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