User talk:LandiAfrica

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Help me!
Please help me with... I want to add citations to Wiki pages linking to/referencing relevant content but am being censored because they are deemed as advertising which is not the case. They are informational articles about related subjects.

How does one get information and citations accepted? LandiAfrica (talk) 14:41, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * The links you were adding are considered spam because they were sources that do not appear to be journalistic news sources or relatively independent guidebooks.
 * When, in response to having your edits reverted, you chose to remove an existing set of references, that appeared to be more like retaliation than a good faith effort to clean up the encyclopedia. Yes, those links in Cape Town possibly needed to go, but you should not be the one removing them, at least for now.
 * You can raise issues on the talk pages of the articles where you think changes would be beneficial. And it's appropriate to have asked for clarification on the talk pages of editors who reverted you.
 * You can also help allay concerns about your edits if you can explain whether you have a connection with or Landia Davis. It's definitely inappropriate to be adding links to material that you yourself have written.  — jmcgnh (talk)  (contribs) 15:57, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page jmcgnh.

I can understand that it may not look like good faith for me to have deleted that link on the Cape Town page. The reason I immediately went to delete that link (and would like to delete two more on the Cape Town page) is that those are the very citations/links that lead me to believe I could add citations the way I did.

I did indeed write some of the articles cited (but not all) and do write for African Budget Safaris. We have a lot of great content that is very informative so I didn't think it would be a problem to add the citations as they are not directed at our actual products.

The link I deleted from the Cape Town page is by the same type of company as African Budget Safaris and I have seen a number of these kinds of links on Wikipedia by other safari agents and businesses. They are adding these links to improve their DA and PA which gives them a competitive advantage.

It does not seem right/consistent that Wikipedia will allow other safari companies to add citations but African Budget Safaris cannot. Surely the same standard should apply to all?

I deleted a citation from Khayelitsha which was promotional - linking to https://www.go2africa.com/destinations/cape-town/why-go which is a food and wine post according to the meta title and is clearly on their business website with tours being promoted in the header and below the content. The page they link to does not even mention the townships of Cape Town let alone Khayelitsha. At least the articles I linked to are specifically about the topics I added citations to.

I'm not trying to hide anything or be an SEO scammer I'm simply following the example of what you are allowing our competitors to do on Wikipedia and contributing content. LandiAfrica (talk) 16:51, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Please, before you make any more edits, create your user page and add a statement explaining your conflict of interest.
 * Yes, I understand your complaints about apparent lack of fairness, but your (as yet undeclared) conflict of interest) places you in violation of our policies. We expect you to use request edit templates on the talk pages of articles where you might be considered to have a conflict. That way, an unconflicted editor can make the changes, after making an assessment. Requests to remove spammy links will be gladly entertained.  — jmcgnh (talk) (contribs) 13:38, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

August 2021
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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website 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. Johnj1995 (talk) 14:57, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Cape Town, you may be blocked from editing. Materialscientist (talk) 15:13, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Hi LandiAfrica! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia – it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. David Biddulph (talk) 15:45, 31 August 2021 (UTC)