User talk:Jerikab

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Jerikab! Thank you for your contributions. I am Mdann52 and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Mdann52 (talk) 13:22, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
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 * I have reverted your link addition at Natural landscaping, as I felt it failed the guidelines at WP:EL. Thanks, Mdann52 (talk) 13:23, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Spam alert
Hi, from your contribs looks like you only joined up to tack a certain NGO's website to the ext links of numerous articles. That looks a lot like WP:SPAM, which is not appreciated here. Please pick an article and spend meaningful time making substantive improvements instead of just spamming. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 18:58, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

I am new to adding on Wiki, and I'm learning as I go. By no means am I spamming and I apologize if it looks that way as I certainly did not sign up to tack a certain NGO's website.


 * Two more things to learn. Indent your comments in threads with colons like I did (click edit to see).  Also, sign your posts with four tildes like this ~ NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:47, 5 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for showing me this! I am simply trying to include a link to conservation issues. Other very similar organization with similar causes have included their links and I want to include the one I've been trying to. Is there a better way to add the link so that it isn't considered spam? Thanks for your help!Jerikab (talk) 13:37, 6 December 2012 (UTC)Jerikab

December 2012
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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 page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.   MrOllie (talk) 19:00, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. MrOllie (talk) 19:25, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi MrOllie, I am new to this and I am learning as I go. Maybe you can help me understand this but I don't understand how the links that I am posting are inappropriate when    very similar conservation organizations with the similar causes have posted their website link? Is there a better way at posting it so that it wouldn't be considered inappropriate?  Thanks for your help!Jerikab (talk) 13:31, 6 December 2012 (UTC) Jerikab
 * The external links to the other conservation groups weren't appropriate either. Wikipedia is a big place and often links take a while to get reviewed, so you should go by the external link guideline and not examples that you might find on other articles. - MrOllie (talk) 15:46, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you for letting me know the reason, I will have to take a look at the guidelines and review them closer. But in regards to your comment that links take a while to get reviewed, I will respectfully disagree with you, I understand that Wikipedia is a big place but those other similar links had been there longer than just a couple of months, and the ones I posted were removed within minutes of posting. Thank you you so much for getting back to me though! Jerikab (talk) 16:45, 6 December 2012 (UTC)Jerikab

In response to your feedback
See WP:Otherstuffexists

Lectonar (talk) 09:56, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. 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. MrOllie (talk) 16:47, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
 * MrOllie Could you please remove the other links. It looks like you are being supported by organizations and discriminating against others. They are clearly US base organizations with identical causes as the one I am trying to post, yet you allow them... The only difference it that this one is a Canadian organization. Either allow it or please do your job and remove all the other links that aren't appropriate either, just as you said. Thanks.Jerikab (talk) 18:11, 11 December 2012 (UTC)Jerikab


 * Hi Jerikab,
 * We get so much spam here that it's nearly impossible to manage it properly, and in fact we get two extremes sometimes happening at the same article. We end up with situations where we have:
 * Well meaning editors too quickly labelled as "spammers"
 * Once that label is applied, most people who interact with them treat them like a spammer
 * Rather abrupt answers to honest questions (e.g. "See WP:Otherstuffexists")
 * At the same time, the challenge of separating wheat from chaff is so large that a lot of spam (see, I fall into that habit myself) inappropriate external links that do make it onto a page tends to stay forever, due to inertia, and due to the fact that actual spammers say the same thing, so we're kind of jaded when we hear it.


 * I'm not really defending this, just explaining how well meaning people might end up coming off as jerks. Adding the same website to multiple pages is pretty much a red cape to a bull.  If you read WP:EL and understand the theory behind it, you're more than welcome to carefully remove links that don't meet it. If you're not sure, you can ask on the article talk page (or you can ask here, and I'll keep an eye on this page for a while to see if you have questions). Similarly, if you think a link you want to add to a specific article meets WP:EL, you're welcome to propose it on the talk page (or here). I'll try over the next couple of days to take a look at the articles you've tried to add this website to, and see if they need external link pruning. Anyway, sorry for the rough welcome. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:03, 11 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Also, I should say, I'm not online a whole lot, so if you want to deal with people who are less aggressive than average, I've heard good things about the WP:TEAHOUSE (there's an invitation up a ways on this page). --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:25, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback
I looked, but what i found doesn't make much sense. try going to the talk page at WP:RENAME and asking there. Maybe someone who knows can help you from there

Ryan shell (talk) 18:55, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

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 * The steps you should take sort of depend on what you plan to do. Are you planning to keep editing in this same general area, but want to have a different username? Are you looking to start completely fresh, and make edits with nothing to do with the Canadian Wildlife Federation?  Have you given up and want to disassociate your username with the site?  The first two have a couple of ways to do them; the last one is trickier. --Floquenbeam (talk) 19:14, 11 December 2012 (UTC)