User talk:John D. Gaskell, Retired Professional Engineer

May 2015
Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Engineer's degree. While objective prose about beliefs, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Stop adding your book to pages- Wikipedia is not a place to advertise/promote your own book. Joseph2302 (talk) 00:39, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hello, John D. Gaskell, Retired Professional Engineer, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Engineers Without Borders, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Joseph2302 (talk) 00:40, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
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May 2015
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to List of engineering branches. 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. ''Stop adding reference to your books, this isn't a place for free advertising. There are thousands of engineering books, there is no legitimate reason why yours should be listed, when no other books are listed.'' Joseph2302 (talk) 01:01, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at History of engineering. 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. Joseph2302 (talk) 01:01, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at Outline of engineering. Stop using Wikipedia to advertise your books. Joseph2302 (talk) 01:03, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at Lists of engineers. Joseph2302 (talk) 01:11, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Recent edit to List of electrical engineers
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Your recent edit to List of electrical engineers added the name of an apparently non-notable entity. In general, a person or organization added to a list should have a pre-existing article to establish notability. If you wish to create such an article, please confirm that your subject is notable according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you! DemocraticLuntz (talk) 01:20, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Block
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice:. Diannaa (talk) 03:46, 10 May 2015 (UTC)