User talk:Maghie

February 2008
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 web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Snowman (talk) 11:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. 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 all of Wikipedia. Snowman (talk) 11:30, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Your edits/emails
Thanks for emailing me, it probably would have helped if you just left a message on my Talk page as It shows up quickly, I don't check my emails as frequently.
 * There are some issues about adding an external site that you control to the external links. The first is that it may be seen as a Conflict of Interest, I.E. - as you control the site, you naturally will put it in a positive light.
 * My suggestion is, as these links seem to be rejected, to place information that you have collected about the birds into the article, and cite references or sources as you see fit, perhaps build up a reputation, and get the information up to scratch. See How to write a great article and don't hesitate to contact people on their talk pages (User talk:(Username)), if needs be. Best of luck!  RT |  Talk  13:11, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Shocked - Maghie
Hi,

I would have preferred to have sent this to you as a private e-mail - but it seems you do accept e-mails. So, I have to ignore my need to be well mannered and respond to you publicly.

I must say that I am rather disappointed that an editor with your expertise would be so rude to a newcomer - totally disregarding the Wikipedia rules of 'Do not Bite the newcomer'. No one likes spammers including me - but surely you should check out your facts before accusing people. And you should also give them the chance to read their first mail and figure out how to navigate this system before threatening them.

I was not trying to promote my site or increase my rankings. I was trying to share information learned from years of real life observation on a topic that is not well known on many species of birds that wikipedia has very scanty information about. (information I myself was desperately searching for before I commenced my research.) I apologise for my error. I have deleted the remaining links and will leave the hole in the wikipedia information untouched. (I did not notice all the other external links being discussed in the article talk pages. It would also be a huge time consuming exercise for the editors and myselfto do that for nearly 36 species and more on an on-going basis.)

It seems Wikipedia has still a long way to go in making genuine contributors welcome. I hope other users are treated with more politeness and consideration in the future.

Kind regards, Maghie (talk) 14:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC) Maghie


 * It seems to me that your only contributions to date are to add external links to your website from various bird pages; see WP:EL which is about the adding external links. You are welcome to improve the wiki and make constructive edits, but if you continuously add spam links you will be blocked. Snowman (talk) 14:32, 19 February 2008 (UTC) (copied from my talk page) Snowman (talk) 14:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)