User talk:GregSims


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October 2013
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Gospel of John. 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. Elizium23 (talk) 06:20, 19 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Elizim, It is not my intent to Spam but to add useful information to the website to users. This is what is encouraged by the Wikipedia guidelines for external links. The link I offered to the website contains over 20 well written articles on the Gospel of John. Did you get a chance to look at this link? [http://www.raystedman.org/new-testament/john John: Who is this Man? ]. I am wondering why this page is viewed as Spam for the Gospel of John and this link is not Gospel of John – collected comments. I am trying to be helpful here -- please help me understand. Thnaks, Greg


 * The link you mention is dead in any case and I've removed it, along with someone's personal website. It's WP:spam because you are connected to it and have added it to a number of articles and it fails WP:EL. If you want to argue at WP:ELN you are welcome to do so. But you need to stop adding this if you don't want your editing privileges removed. Dougweller (talk) 17:21, 19 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your reply Doug. I will read WP:EL again carefully and post a reply on WP:ELN.  Who is the decision maker relative to the links failing WP:EL? Is it my connection with the website that makes anything I post here Spam? Are you personally willing to engage in the discussion on WP:ELN?  Thanks for your assistance!  Greg