User talk:LauraBrad

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ANI notice
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Recent additions
Your recent additions of links to an events calendar is not appropriate. Wikipedia is not a webserver it is an encyclopedia. We do not host links to your calendar. Please do not add any more, all the ones you have done have been reverted. GB fan 04:35, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

Diocese Calendar References
Apologies I am not trying to spam, let me explain further every Catholic diocese in the world has a homepage and an events calendar on xt3.com If someone is looking for Catholic events happening in their diocese this is where they can find more information and upload their own events happening at their parishes. There must be an appropriate place for this information? --LauraBrad (talk) 04:54, 7 August 2012 (UTC)

File permission problem with File:Diocese Event Calendar of Aberdeen.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Diocese Event Calendar of Aberdeen.jpg, which you've sourced to http://www.xt3.com/diocese/calendar.php?dioceseId=1016. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license.

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Your recent edits
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Please stop
Please stop posting links to the diocese calendars. They often are empty shells, and thus provide no extra information whatsoever (e.g. this one.) Linking to such empty or near-empty pages is not helping the readers but spamming the site. Link it from the Sydney archdiocese, which runs it, and perhaps for other pages where it is really the official and oft-used channel (not official because xt3 claims so, but because the diocese links to the xt3 site as their official agenda or webpage), but please don't add the link to any other pages. Fram (talk) 10:59, 8 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, likely not there either, if the official homepage of a diocese is already linking to xt3 as their official agenda or webpage, then that official homepage of the diocese is likely already in the Wikipedia page, and that makes the xt3 link superfluous. Please, leave it to the community and do not add any links yourself.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 07:12, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

External link additions
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. --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:11, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

External link additions
Dear Dirk Beetstra I understand your original concern however I would ask you to reconsider your response to remove the EL. These external links are not inappropriate Xt3.com is a recognised and respected official Catholic website in the catholic world community and the specific diocese link to that diocese homepage is indeed relevant and adds useful information to a person interested in their diocese, the aim was not to alter search engine rankings but to direct people to the semi-official diocese homepage. I have already had a discussion about this in the administrators page and 2 people agreed that this was acceptable to add in the External links section (not in the body of the article which was MaryBroady and my mistake originally.) There seems to be some question here amongst administrators to these inclusions, so who has the final decision here? I can see that this is an unusual situation for wikipedia and that multiple external links are frowned upon however it is an unusual case that I believe needs to be discussed further --LauraBrad (talk) 23:28, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
 * You added links which had no information whatsoever, and which asked representatives of the diocese to contact the website if they wanted it to become their homepage and so on. This is pure spam, sending people to a website you want to expand instead of sending them to a pllace where they can actually find any additional info on the diocese. There was agreement in the admins discussion that in some cases, inclusion of your link may be acceptable (in general, in those cases where the diocese itself has clearly decided to use your page as their main information channel). However, the links you included were not among those cases. Fram (talk) 06:55, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Final warning
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, 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. --Dirk Beetstra T C 07:04, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

In response to your feedback
The link you added was removed because it would be considered as a social networking profile, such links are discouraged per Wikipedia:External links. Social networking profiles are discouraged because they may either: promote the subject, contain trivial information or overwhelm the "external links" section. Generally, the only acceptable links are official website and possibly other significantly related links.

SwisterTwister  talk  05:59, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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