User talk:Mattd7777

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September 2015
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Warning for adding promotion and spamlinks on Maytag and Electrolux. Thomas.W talk 13:47, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

I am sorry that you feel this is advertising in any way. I was simply updating the facts for these 2 manufactures since there were no 2015 updates on their new product offerings. For Electrolux the last update shows 2001 for last product updated and I simply offered an article on the newest product line. For Maytag they are gutting getting their feet wet with vacuums for the first time, and this was not listed anywhere in the Maytag page. This is simply not spam and I was trying to share updated content on these two manufacturers.


 * The material you added is advertising/promotion for a web store (evacuumstore), in clear violation of Wikipedia's rules, not the informational material you try to portray it as. Trying to add it again could result not only in you getting blocked but also in the website you're promoting getting blacklisted. Which in turn could result in it getting penalised by Internet search engines. Thomas.W talk 14:08, 12 September 2015 (UTC

Would this information have been ok if it had zero links in it?
 * As it is, no, the style and tone is much too promotional, reading like an ad. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a sales flyer, so we don't accept text that is full of puffery and promotion. Thomas.W talk 14:32, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

I apologize for the bad edits and I will be more clear with any future edits. For the 2 different pages, can I simply put these 2 updates with zero links under the line notable products since this is valid information and not advertising in any way?

2015: Electrolux creates Ultra Collection

2015: Maytag creates Vacuum Cleaner line for the first time — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.211.253.18 (talk) 14:55, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * All companies create new products at regular intervals, but we don't include it unless it's really notable. If the vacuums from Maytag are their first vacuum cleaners ever, it might be notable, but Electrolux creating a new collection of vacuum cleaners, in addition to the ones they already have, isn't. Thomas.W talk 15:36, 12 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. Are these these the only 2 edits with issues? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.211.253.18 (talk) 15:38, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
 * They're the only ones I've seen, so far at least. Except for some reference spam for evacuum.com that I removed from another article, along with similar spam for another web store. But I didn't bother check who had added any of that. Thomas.W talk 15:49, 12 September 2015 (UTC)