User talk:Luggagestore

September 2006
Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in Neck Face. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links as long as the content abides by our policies and guidelines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 06:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Ytny (talk) 16:20, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

April 2007
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Kariteh 16:17, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

Please remember to mark your edits as minor when (and only when) they genuinely are minor edits (see Minor edit). Marking a major change as a minor one (and vice versa) is considered poor etiquette. The rule of thumb is that only an edit that consists solely of spelling corrections, formatting and minor rearranging of text should be flagged as a 'minor edit'. Kariteh 16:17, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Kariteh 17:14, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

November 2007
Please do not add commercial material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Peter G Werner 18:53, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Comment about spam
As a comment, thanks for being up front about being involved with the Luggage Store - honesty is always good. Wikipedia rules either prohibit or strongly discourage anyone from posting external links or adding material that serves to promote themselves or their business, even if that material would otherwise be legitimate content if someone else added it. That's considered a conflict of interest. Although it is not always so bad in the individual cases, if we allowed it, then the whole project would sooner or later be buried under a bunch of corporations, PR firms, self-promoters, etc. Some people call that "spam" even if it doesn't really fit the rest of the world's definition, meaning something that's done in bad faith, shamelessly materialistic, or totally tacky.

The Luggage Store is an important outlet that has done a lot to promote the success and awareness of Mission School art. So you've done a lot of good work and deserve some recognition for it. What I would suggest is that you keep up the good work by making constructive neutral edits to the content of articles where you have something to add, but just stay away from doing that for people currently on display in the gallery or about the gallery itself. I know that there are some people on Wikipedia who know a lot about and are passionate about the art form. You can generate some goodwill around here with them, and they will be fair. If you do think there's something missing or that ought to be said relating to the luggage store, why not just make that comment on the talk page and ask if any neutral editor will consider the matter?

And not that you've done this but please, don't even think about trying to do it anonymously. People catch that pretty easily and it leads to all kinds of trouble - perhaps you've seen some news stories about the consequences.

Hope this helps. Wikidemo 01:55, 15 November 2007 (UTC)