User talk:JCThring

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September 2022
 You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Bbb23 (talk) 16:43, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

JCThring, or Malcolm, I pinged you from my talk page, User talk:Drmies, but I'll continue here. First of all, I think you need to change your user name. You're not JC Thring, and if you're going to pick a name and link your own articles, might as well go all the way and use your real name. Second, obviously editors and administrators here didn't think you were editing according to our guidelines, and I agree. The things you linked are perfectly acceptable: they're academically published and peer-reviewed, and the more of that stuff we cite, the better.However, what you did was not writing article content and giving it proper academic backing--you just dropped the links in the article with a few words to indicate why it matters. That, after half a dozen times, turns into link spamming. What you could have done was start smaller, and not drop this in every single article where it may be relevant. Pick one. Write some content that improves the article. Add the right reference. That is really the only way in which editors here will allow such self-citation, and mind you, some editors really don't like that either. I personally don't have a big problem with it, but it needs to be on the up and up, and it needs to improve the article. Does that make sense? Drmies (talk) 17:33, 12 September 2022 (UTC)