User talk:Janice Mills

Edit tests on List of Australian artists
Hello and thank you for editing Wikipedia! I just wanted to let you know that I undid a recent change you made to List of Australian artists, since it seemed to be a test or a simple mistake. Don't worry, it's great that you were bold and edited a page. It's also possible I was wrong, so if you feel I shouldn't have undone your edit, please let me know. Thanks again! 28bot (talk) 01:51, 25 January 2012 (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 List of Australian artists with this edit 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. Jim1138 (talk) 01:58, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello Janice Mills. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to List of Australian artists with this edit. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 02:01, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Added Janice Mills
I added your name to List of Australian artists. I changed a few things 1) Removed the Bold from the header "M" 2) Removed the link as there is nothing to link to. 3) Shortened the description (it needs to be brief) feel free to change it, but keep it brief. 4) Removed the link. That constitutes spam and will be removed. Please try to make your entry look similar to others. Anything too different will probably be deleted. Feel free to add an article, but please read guidelines on how to create an article that does not sound like an advertisement. Cheers, Jim1138 (talk) 02:32, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I've reverted Jim's action, as there are too many issues with this entry - the artist doesn't appear to meet the notability guidelines (based on a quick google search); even if they did, notability hasn't been established in the WP article; there's no article on her to link to; and the account originally adding the entry appears to have a COI. Please discuss at the article talk page if needed. Thanks. hamiltonstone (talk) 03:10, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Your message on User talk:28bot
Hi Janice. The reason 28bot left you a message was because you made this edit, which didn't add anything to the page except some broken formatting. I notice you are also trying to get your name in the list of artists; the bot is not removing your name, other editors are. You can ask those editors (User:Hamiltonstone and User:Tgeairn) about it if you like. 28bytes (talk) 03:14, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Reminder
I have reverted your recent re-addition of the entry under your own name at the list of Australian artists. All of the points above remain relevant, and I just wanted to remind you of them. hamiltonstone (talk) 02:27, 16 June 2013 (UTC)