User talk:Gatrbite25

Spamming of http://spam.wizarduniverse.com
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This is the only warning you will receive. Your recent insertion of spam, commercial content, and/or links is prohibited under policy. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. You are, however, encouraged to add appropriate content to the encyclopedia. If you feel the material in question should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Hu12 21:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Question?
I looked over the spam page and such, and wasn't sure where I was violating any restrictions. I've been trying to post links to external articles that are relevant to wikipedia articles. I'm an editor for the site these links are coming for, yes - but I'm not spamming wikipedia with every article we've ever posted. No one has ever bothered posting any of the site's articles on wikipedia as reference material, as they'd never heard of wikipedia. Much of the wizarduniverse.com content is niche stuff that i believed people would have use for it when doing research via wikipedia, so i began adding the occasional article link to select wikipedia sections.

For example, I added a link to a recent "Origin of Battle Beasts" story posted on wizarduniverse.com to the wikipedia entry on "Battle Beasts."

I don't want to violate any spam restrictions, so could you please clarify what i'm misunderstanding?


 * Your contributions to wikipedia consist mainly of adding external links and is considered  WP:Spam. Looking through your contributions as a whole, the majority seem to be external link related only. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a link farm. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked.  If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. see Advertising and conflicts of interest guidelines.Hu12 23:50, 5 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Ahh, makes sense.. I placed them in the External Links section with the thought that they'd provide reference material for anyone looking to edit the body of the article. Didn't edit the body of the article myself due to conflict of interest concerns. From now on, anything I feel is relevant will be posted in the article's talk page. Thanks for the quick response.