User talk:Don L Gates

Links added to https://www.ukdrivingskills.co.uk
There is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is https://www.ukdrivingskills.co.uk. Thank you. Pol098 (talk) 12:01, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Any further additions of links to your website will be treated as spam and your account is liable to be permanently blocked. Stifle (talk) 15:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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Conflict of interest
Hi Don, just to let you know that you should never add links to a website you are commercially assocatiated with, as that represents a conflict of interest: see WP:COI. Regards MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:33, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

January 2022
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. 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. Stifle (talk) 15:00, 25 January 2022 (UTC)