User talk:MatthewKNorton

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June 2018
You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or self-promoting in violation of the conflict of interest and notability guidelines. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:49, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for bringing that to our attention; I found more spam that apparently slipped through the cracks. OhNo itsJamie Talk 15:16, 7 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I want to note that Matthew K Norton is an actual person, who has an over-the-top woo-flogging medical practice with a website called "America's Holistic Doctor". See the about page. I rather suspect that this account is WP:CORPNAME and is a paid contractor here to do SEO/marketing for that practice (but also other sorts of spamming, not for Norton). (see for example this classic chatboard spam from last year, likewise here.  In addition because the name of the practice is the practitioner's name there are also issues with WP:IMPERSONATE. Besides those username issues there is also likely a WP:PAID violation, if this guess I am hazarding about SEO work is correct. Jytdog (talk) 15:30, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Further along these lines, two of the sites spammed (in [this diff and this diff, each say at the bottom they were designed by an outfit called NY Medical Marketing (some of which also refer to their Yempl team ) -- which has a faked address 2568 E 17th St, NY, NY 11235 (that address is Brooklyn, not Manhattan) and is this unpresuming building in the [[Sheepshead Bay]] neighborhood. Jytdog (talk) 15:47, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * also spammed a link to brooklyngynplace.com so we apparently have socking as well. Jytdog (talk) 15:48, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * that account also spammed medical practice websites that state they are created/SEOed marketed by NY Medical Marketing eg. here. Jytdog (talk) 15:51, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, see this file uploaded by CloudInYourHead inserted in this edit :  "Source 	http://americasholisticdoctor.com/bone-grafting-techniques/" --BallenaBlanca &#128051; ♂  (Talk)  16:03, 7 June 2018 (UTC)


 * I am going to open a COIN thread and we can go from there to SPI and the spam blacklist. That's all for here for me. Jytdog (talk) 15:54, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, having done a bit of digging I can tell you that this user doesn't come from Brooklyn... far from it, in fact. There are also compelling reasons to suspect a connection to, based on some of that user's early edits (the account has been dormant for too long to run a CU). I would advise any reviewing administrator to disregard the claims above that this user is Dr Matthew Norton; unless he's gone halfway around the world for a holiday, they are not. Yunshui 雲 水 16:00, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

{{{unblock reviewed | 1=Well, thank you all for helping me to understand the reason for my block. I accept that I made some inappropriate changes on Wiki. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". But can you help me and tell why these changes was bad and deleted. I used just WIKI and *.edu links to the pages and official websites of the Universities. I thought this also was the reason for my ban. I rly want to make some usefull contributions through the wiki pages. I saw tons of dead links on some bad pages, and wish to change them to appropriate and usefull citations. Thank you all ( @Yunshui: @OhNoitsJamie: @Yamla: @Jytdog: @BallenaBlanca: ) for your's attention and time you're spend on me. Can someone tell me about my ban duration? Thx) MatthewKNorton (talk) 07:59, 8 June 2018 (UTC) | decline = Yeah, it's linkspam, and per Yunshui above, I'm betting you are a freelancer who has been around the block a few times. Anyway, you're clearly wasting our time here, so I'm revoking talk page access. You can appeal via WP:UTRS if you so desire. TonyBallioni (talk) 14:25, 8 June 2018 (UTC)}}
 * Question Can you explain the difference between a reference and links to avoid? OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:31, 8 June 2018 (UTC)