User talk:Gino.vannelli

January 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Gino Vannelli has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://ginovannelli.tripod.com/stardust/inthesand.html (matching the regex rule (?<!jeff560\.)tripod\.com). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 08:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Please stop
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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 will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 12:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Username
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, Gino.vannelli, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is doubtful that you are really Gino Vannelli. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 12:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Username blocked
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