User talk:IrishGothicJournal

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then 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 to this encyclopedia. Veinor (talk to me) 16:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add 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 attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Veinor (talk to me) 16:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since 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. Veinor (talk to me) 16:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Veinor (talk to me) 16:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Why is this editor being persecuted? His link to an on-line academic journal looks perfectly OK to me. I thought we were supposed to 'assume good faith' here on the wikipedia rather than leaping on editors at the slightest provocation? Colin4C 18:49, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * We do assume good faith. However, when an editor persists in the face of warnings without even responding to them, good faith gets harder to assume. Not assuming good faith would have been going with uw-spam4 and then indefinitely blocking. Veinor (talk to me) 18:52, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

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I think the problem is I did quite a number of links in a row without discussing them with page editors beforehand. I see they've all been removed now, so I'm not sure what to do. I'm happy to go to each page individually and ask for permission in the discussion section but I need some feedback on if this is ok. Still waiting...
 * You hit the nail on the head; the issue is the rapid addition without responding to the warnings. I wouldn't put it on the pages of each individual author, because there's nothing that really differentiates one from another. I'd suggest asking on the talk pages of the broader categories, such as Talk:Horror fiction (but not Irish fiction, since that's not restricted to gothic/horror fiction). Veinor (talk to me) 18:55, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Veinor,

Thanks for this. I'll ask on the Horror/Gothic fiction and film pages. Although there are a number of 7,000 word essays on the site devoted to the work of one author and as such I deemed them relevant to specific author's pages on Wikipedia (eg John Banville, Preacher, Le Fanu and Lovecraft). Again, my apologies for not replying to your messages I didn't even notice I was being messaged until there were 5 of them as I'm only new to the site.IrishGothicJournal 19:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh. There should've been an orange box saying that you have new messages; did you not notice it or was it not there? Because if wasn't there at all, then it's a bug. Veinor (talk to me) 19:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)