User talk:Gexal

August 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Ghazal do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. gråb whåt you cån (talk) 11:11, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Victorian Aborigines with this edit. 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. DVdm (talk) 11:50, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Victorian Aborigines with this edit. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. DVdm (talk) 11:52, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

This is your last warning; the next time you harm Wikipedia, as you did at Victorian Aborigines with this edit, 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. DVdm (talk) 12:31, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello, Gexal. If you are right about content of an article being plagiarised from a book, then please give details, such as page numbers of the original book. If you can do this on the article's talk page then someone can properly cite the material, if you don't know how to do it. Alternatively, if the material is directly copied so as to constitute a copyright infringement, then it can be deleted. However, simply posting multiple copies of a link relating to the book throughout the article is not a good way of dealing with the problem. Also, please try to imagine how your editing looked to another editor who did not know the background. Your edits will have looked like spam or vandalism, and I see no reason to suppose that the editor who reverted your changes was acting in good faith: there is no reason I can see to suppose there is any sort of "personal vendetta". JamesBWatson (talk) 13:17, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Sorry
Hi Gexal, please accept my apologies for my spam warnings. I was wrong. Thank you for having noticed the copyright issue. Cheers - DVdm (talk) 14:25, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits
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Victorian Aborigines - copyright violation
Gexal, I have logged the issue as a possible copyright violation at Copyright problems/2011 August 22 - you might want to add that page to your watch list to see what happens from now on. It won't necessarily be a fast process so please be patient on awaiting an outcome. NtheP (talk) 14:34, 22 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you for calling attention to this problem. There was not just plagiarism, but worse than that, there was unambiguous copyright infringement, so I have deleted the article. Clearly you are not used to Wikipedia's ways, and did not know how to report this problem, but unfortunately simply plastering the title and author of the book all over the article looked very much like spamming. Also, it would have made it much easier and quicker to have tracked down the copyright infringement if you had taken up my suggestion of giving page numbers from the book: searching through a book of over 200 pages to try to find copied text is not easy, if you don't know where to look. However, the matter is dealt with now, and once again thanks for pointing it out. JamesBWatson (talk) 11:22, 23 August 2011 (UTC)