User talk:Johnsonwilliam

April 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Ottawa Good Food Box has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \bfacebook\.com (links: http://www.facebook.com/pages/ottawa-good-food-box/70428967436?ref=ts, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ottawa-Good-Food-Box/70428967436?ref=ts (redirect from http://www.facebook.com/pages/ottawa-good-food-box/70428967436?ref=ts)). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 16:02, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

Ottawa Good Food Box
Thank you for your contribution to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, this article runs afoul of several of our policies and guidelines. First, content placed on Wikipedia must be original unless the source from which it is taken is verifiably public domain or licensed compatibly with Wikipedia's license of GFDL. Even if you are connected with the original publication, we need verification of permission, since copyright is a legal concern. You can see our copyright policy for more and Donating copyrighted materials for information on how to verify permission.

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Because this article does not meet these various policies, it has been speedily deleted under WP:CSD, WP:CSD and WP:CSD, for copyright concerns, notability concerns and promotion. It is not impossible to create an article on this subject (though if you do have a conflict of interest we ask that you exercise great care), but the article will need to comply with those various policies.

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Again, thank you for your contribution. I hope that you will not allow the problems you've encountered with this article to discourage you from continuing. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:50, 4 May 2009 (UTC)