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Elissa
hey Elissacafe is not a spam website please remove the ban u did for this website its just a fan site that helpt too much in building Elissa's page other websites are reporting us as spam because we have high number of members at our forums and Elissa's fans visits us more
 * This site was spammed across several wikipedia-projects. Your request has been handled at m:Talk:Spam_blacklist and declined. Yhis has nothing to do with numbers of visitors on your site, but purely with the amount of times this site was spammed on wikipedia. See m:User:COIBot/LinkReports/elissacafe.com for the list of additions of your site. The link has been removed from the article Elissa (singer) 6 times, which indicates the link is not deemed relevant. See External links for wikipedia's policy on external links, links to fansites should normally be avoided. EdBever (talk) 19:18, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Spam
Hello EdBever, I guess I do not understand that I am spamming, also I hope this is the proper way to contact you. All the links I added were meant to enhance the articles. The stupa page mentioned as the 1st American stupa is a project I have been involved with since 1976, historic significance seemed relevant. I am also involved in projects for Tsurphu Monastery since 1992. I am the 1st westerner to have learned Tibetan Tangka Painting and closely involved in Tibetan Culture since 1966. Some of my external links were dead links that I updated as my site, tibetcolor.com, is being revamped since Jan 2009. Since most of my life has been intimately involved with Tibet and its culture is this conflict of interest? I am not trying to be difficult just seems my contributions can be useful. I was hoping to add an article on Tibetan Iconography, but wonder if that is a problem also? Anyway that I can rectify this problem? My site is Joomla based and has a 35 language translator on the pages. Previously I only had German, French and Spanish as well as my native English on the site. I do receive many requests online for help with Tibetan Art queries. Anyway thank you for any help on this problem. I am in North Thailand so I am close to Tibet for current TsurphuTibet projects. Terles —Preceding unsigned comment added by Terles (talk • contribs) 15:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello Terles, The link you placed was placed more than 50 times. On August 12 you placed the link 21 times in about 8 hours on wikipedia-projects in many different languages. See m:User:COIBot/XWiki/tibetcolor.com for more info. I assume you placed these links, although you are only logged in on en: and operating anonymously on all other projects. The link is to your own site I presume. This means there is a conflict of interest. If you place the link in a single article as a reference there is no harm, but if you place the link 50 times and add nothing else to articles you are spamming wikipedia. I am one of the people who watch over the placement of external links across all wikimedia projects. Your link was detected by COIbot (=conflict of interest bot/robot) and I have removed all links. The link is not blacklisted but is monitored by COIbot. I suggest that you discuss placement of your link on an article's talkpage before placing it again. If you keep placing the link you run the risk of having the link blacklisted. I think you were acting in good faith but I urge you to discuss before placing. Some parties are trying to use wikipedia as a cheap advertising medium, and that's not what wikipedia is for. I hope you understand why we're doing this. See Wikipedia:External links for more information on wikipedia's external link policy. EdBever (talk) 20:48, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

User:Newstv11/FUNtaste and User:Newstv11/Multipassport
Hello, Just a quick note to say that I removed the speedy deletion tags from these articles. Although the mainspace articles FUNtaste and Multipassport were previously deleted, they were not deleted as the result of a deletion discussion. They were speedily deleted, which means they do not meet speedy deletion criterion G4. It's likely that the original speedy deletion criteria still apply though, but there's not much urgency to delete userspace drafts - so why not just WP:PROD them and give the author a chance to improve them or concede to deletion?.

Cheers,

Thparkth (talk) 03:34, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the update! I have requested deletion by normal means of these articles now. The user spammed wikipedia so I am not really going to bother contacting them. EdBever (talk) 13:21, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Removed links
Hi Ed,

I'm the administrator af "etnatracking.com". A few months ago I joined wikipedia, trying to improve Etna's knowledge adding my site (no profit) as external resource for specific trails and other info about the volcano. An Italian administrator suggested me not to put just the link, but also to write my knowledge inside Wikipedia, using my site as "source". So I started to try to improve some Wikipedia articles, using the "notes" section to include my site as a source. The articles are the following:

-Lago Gurrida (IT) -Sentiero Azzurro (IT) -Vulcano (IT) -Cinque Terre (EN)

In a few other articles, my site was just added as external link, so I agree they had been removed. But what about the list above? For istance, on the "Cinque Terre" I wrote that "The difference in height for the whole Sentiero Azzurro is more than 600 meters". I think is a useful info for the ones wanted to walk on the trail, and I also think that is important to write the source (my site!), where you can find the difference in height.

So, I would like to re-insert the link on those articles as a source and to keep writing my infos on other articles or even write new articles, but as I understood, the bot will worn you again if I put links on to many articles.

What can I do? Let me know.

Ciao

Bruno--Brunog916 (talk) 09:47, 9 December 2010 (UTC) P.S. I already talked with an Italian administrator (Sirabder87) and he told me to contact the bot adminstrator
 * Your site is not blacklisted, but COIbot picks it up because you inserted the link at least 13 times on various wikipedia projects. I think the use of your site as a reference might be acceptable, but be sure to use it only where it adds something to the article. Please have a look at WP:EL. I will mention your request on m:User:COIBot/XWiki/etnatracking.com so other admins may read this. EdBever (talk) 09:57, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

ponceweb.org
Ponceweb.org, the official site of the government of the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce, moved less than a year ago. The new site is at www.visitponce.com. Maybe you know of a BOT or something that will automatically update the site thruout the encyclopedia? Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 01:08, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Additionally, at least HERE you removed not only ponceweb but also a reference to citymelt. Your summary indicates "spam" as it does on other where citymelt is NOT a citation (example: Marueño). Can you clarify why you removed the citymelt citation? Is the citymelt site considered spam? If so, how are we supposed to know this if, unlike with other sites blacklisted by wikipedia as spam sites, we are allowed to save the link in wikipedia articles? Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 03:26, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
 * The move explains a lot. I tagged it as spam since the site only contains commercial links. I used a semi-automated tool to remove the links and the citymelt I guess was an innocent victim. I failed to spot the removal of that link, it wasn't intentional. You could ask at Bot requests or do the 20 or so links manually. EdBever (talk) 10:28, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Removing the Dragon Ball Encyclopedia links
Hey, you removed all of the Dragon Ball Encyclopedia because they supposedly didn't comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, and I was wondering what was wrong with them. On the external links guideline, it says that links should be added if they contain "information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail, or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to its accuracy." Most of the Dragon Ball articles can't contain all of the information about their topic because then the article would be too long. The links can provide the reader with additional information that they would like. Also, there were already some links to Wikia on some articles, so I thought it would be okay to link to the DBE too. Could you consider putting the links back? GamingBuddha (talk) 07:39, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
 * You have been placing this link many times, enough to make COIbot notice this. COIbot is an automated tool that watches for the placement of links or edits by people with a conflict of interest (COI). The placement of these links can be seen as spamming, although I think you act in good faith, so no insult intended here.
 * You correctly quote the external links policy, but I disagree on the point that the amount of detail would be prevent the info from the DBE into the articles on wikipedia. Furthermore the policy states under "Links normally to be avoided": "Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article". If I look at this site (just a random search) I find similar info, so DBE is not a unique resource. DEB is not blacklisted and I do not think it needs to be. It is an informative site and the links policy does allow links to stabile open wikis. I suggest you discuss the placement of the links with the people at the Portal:Dragon Ball. The links can be used as reference or in case images could not be used on wikipedia because of copyright rules.
 * If the community deems this link relevant I have no problem with the inclusion, but until that time I am not reverting the deletion of these links. EdBever (talk) 12:25, 21 December 2010 (UTC)