User talk:Gswriter

Please do not add advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 22:46, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Please stop adding advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 23:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Ambox warning.svg|25px|left]]Please stop. If you continue spamming Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 23:17, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Response
Thank you for the information, however I am not advertising the site on Wikipedia. The pages I am linking to the cities are actually important information for each city and its residents. Residents can submit FREE and relevant information to the website that is going on or affects their city. We have received our "official" title from each cities city manager. We would not dare link to articles, but wanted to provide a city source of information (beyond the city and chamber website) for residents. We'll be happy to put our information at the end of the external links. We have placed it under the city site since we have developed a relationship with each cities government.

Please let me know if this explanation is enough to continue linking to the specific city pages of Wikipedia. We await your reply.

Thank you again! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gswriter (talk • contribs)


 * You've been adding links to the same website to many articles. You appear here to confirm that it is your website. Please see WP:EL, our guideline on external links. Aside from the problem of you linking to your own website, the pages do not appear to contain useful information not already available on the Wikipedia pages or on the actual official city webpages. For example, here is the Claremont city webpage,, and here is the Smith Published webpage, . While you may think that your website is unique, there are actually many similar sites and they routinely seek to add links from Wikipedia articles. Please don't add any more. If individual editors find the links of value then they'll get added one by one.  ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 00:05, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

January 2012
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Inland Empire (California) 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. tedder (talk) 00:20, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Los Angeles, you may be blocked from editing. tedder (talk) 01:43, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Los Angeles, 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. Binksternet (talk) 02:27, 1 January 2012 (UTC)