User talk:Jeremiahkjones

COI note
If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam);
 * and you must always:
 * 1) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest. -- Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 18:46, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Please do not spam Wikipedia with external links to your own website. Thank you. -- Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 18:48, 20 December 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. -- Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 18:59, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't know how to respond to this message, but my links are most certainly NOT inappropriate and I quite honestly don't care at all about search engine rankings. I have no interest in being ranked on any search engine. I don't see how you can say these links are inappropriate... the web page discusses a piece of classical piano music and I am linking to a download of that music so that readers can hear what it sounds like. How is that inappropriate? If a user looks up a certain piece of music (which I am one of those who DOES that) then they might actually LIKE to hear what that music sounds like. That is one of the benefits of Wikipedia, and is the primary reason I USE wikipedia, because I can find content that others have contributed. So please explain to me why my links are inappropriate. Again, I really don't care about search engine rankings. The site I link to doesn't even generate revenue and isn't a business website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeremiahkjones (talk • contribs) 21:20, 20 December 2007


 * Hi JK Jones. Thanks for your response. I stepped up the warnings on your talk page after you did not respond to my first two requests. One of the standard warning templates includes the message that you are adding "inappropriate links". Actually, I did not mean to pass judgment on the value of the links you are adding. My concern is the conflict-of-interest issue.


 * Please consider how this looks to us. Having never contributed to any articles before (unless you were editing under some other account), your only contributions now are to add links to your own website. I take it that your intention may be to improve the encyclopedia, but the way it appears is that you have come here to promote your website. Note the policy that Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. If you think it would be valuable to readers to have the links in the articles, please respect our conflict of interest guidelines and mention the links on the Talk pages of the articles, so that regular editors of the articles can decide whether or not the links are appropriate to add. Thanks. -- Paul Erik (talk) (contribs) 04:07, 21 December 2007 (UTC)