User talk:Identify Your Breyer

Welcome!
While I use Wikipedia regularly I don't contribute to other sections because I don't feel that I have the necessary expertise. My username and Wikipedia activity relate to the model horse collecting hobby, something that I have participated in since the 1970s and so have a great deal of experience with. This experience has led me to make additions and minor edits to the Breyer Animal Creations page as well as the Model Horse page in question. I don't believe that any of these text edits are being challenged; my edits there have been minor and unbiased as far as I can tell, with no possible financial gain on my part.

The external link to my website Identify Your Breyer appears to be the bone of contention. I created this website sixteen years ago and it has always been free to use and sells nothing; I'm not seeking to promote my website for financial gain here but rather to further educate hobbyists. And the site is both large and influential within the hobby: with more than 20,000 unique visitors per month it is second only to Breyer's own website in users and is the only hobby website recommended by that company. It is already appropriately listed as an external link on the Breyer Animal Creations page. Adding my website to the External Links section of Model Horse seems entirely reasonable, especially considering the inclusion of the Stone Horse Reference site, a hobby site similar to mine but dedicated to the collecting of another brand of model horses. In short, I believe that my actions have been an attempt to contribute to Wikipedia and not for financial gain. If I'm incorrect, I apologize.

If you choose to not unblock me I'll have to accept that, but I strongly dislike being called a spammer and having the "Identify Your Breyer" name tarnished. I hope that if this block is indeed permanent you'll allow me to delete the account entirely.

--Identify Your Breyer (talk) 05:49, 27 February 2016 (UTC).

September 2015
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Model horse has been reverted. Your edit here to Model horse was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://onlymodelhorses.proboards.com/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. 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) 20:11, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing, because this account has been used only for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to Wikipedia's content policy. Also, your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is against Wikipedia's policy: an account is for an individual, not a group. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a free advertising service.

If you intend to make useful contributions about some topic other than your business or organisation, you may request an unblock. To do so, post the text at the bottom of this page. Replace the text "Your proposed new username" with a new username you are willing to use. See Special:CentralAuth to search for available usernames. Your new username will need to meet our username policy. Replace the text "Your reason here" with your reason to be unblocked. In this reason, you must:
 * Convince us that you understand the reason for your block and that you will not repeat the kind of edits for which you were blocked.
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If you believe this block was made in error, you may appeal this block by adding the text below, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf(talk) 14:07, 23 February 2016 (UTC)