User talk:Jamestrent

A belated welcome!


Here's wishing you a belated welcome to Wikipedia, Jamestrent. I see that you've already been around a while and wanted to thank you for your contributions. Though you seem to have been successful in finding your way around, you may benefit from following some of the links below, which help editors get the most out of Wikipedia:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Questions, or place helpme on your talk page and ask your question there.

Again, welcome! Jytdog (talk) 22:50, 5 June 2017 (UTC) Jytdog (talk) 22:50, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Use of Wikipedia for promotion
It seems that every edit you have made to Wikipedia, has been to add citations in the "Further reading" sections of articles, to books written by James Trent. Please read WP:REFSPAM and if you are he please also read WP:SELFCITE. If you are not he, please do see WP:IMPERSONATE. We love experts in Wikipedia and it would be amazing if you would be willing to work to improve articles, but if all you want to do is use Wikipedia to promote works by Trent, that would mean that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. Please reconsider how you are using your editing privileges. Thanks. Jytdog (talk) 22:53, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Final warning for self-promotion
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Eugenics. 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. This is just the latest in a long string of self-promotional edits you have engaged in for years, despite being warned back in 2017. Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's policies, including WP:PROMO, before editing further. Generalrelative (talk) 18:36, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I will add: Jytdog's advice above was spot-on: We love experts in Wikipedia and it would be amazing if you would be willing to work to improve articles, but if all you want to do is use Wikipedia to promote works by Trent, that would mean that you are not here to build an encyclopedia. Please reconsider how you are using your editing privileges. You clearly have expertise to add to these topics. I hope you will consider doing so constructively and in line with our community norms. Generalrelative (talk) 18:44, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Misuse of “minor” label
Stop tmarking every edit as “minor”. Most of yours aren’t. Help:Minor edit has guidance. If you continue your misuse of the Minor check will be taken away. |deisenbe (talk)