User talk:MarkAlbion

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Toddst1 (talk) 18:28, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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January 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Toddst1 (talk) 18:28, 24 January 2009 (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. Toddst1 (talk) 18:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam); and,
 * 4) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Toddst1 (talk) 18:36, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. Wikipedia is not the place to promote books you have written. Toddst1 (talk) 18:40, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Social Entrepreneurship
Dear Mark, first of all, it is great to have you contributing to the Wikipedia. With your help, the project can greatly enhance the coverage to social enterprise topics. I noticed that you included a reference to yourself in the Social Entrepreneurship page, citing that you were one of the first to use the term in b-schools. According to the Wikipedia recommendations, all edits should be verifiable. Please check: Verifiability. Can you provide us a reference to a book, magazine, or other reliable source (see Reliable_sources) to attest that you were one of the first to use this word? Some collaborators are against users including references to themselves in Wikipedia, so if you can provide factual information that you were one of the first, it will help.

I welcome you again to the project, it is great to have you contributing to the enciclopedia! Warm regards, Editor br (talk) 18:42, 24 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I really was doing this as a favor and don't know how this system works. Feel free to e-mail me at drmark@makingalife.com
 * I think you could add a lot to what we're doing here. We'd like you to take a look at the links above in the first section to learn a little more about our policies and guidelines to help you edit more constructively. Again, I'm sure you could be very valuable here and would like you to stay. Toddst1 (talk) 18:48, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Username blocked
Your account has been blocked from editing Wikipedia because it appears to be mainly intended or used for promotional purposes. Please read the following carefully.

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 * Why can't I edit Wikipedia?

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 * What can I do now?

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