User talk:Matthewsohio

External linking
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, 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. [Jam][talk] 23:06, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

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. [Jam][talk] 23:07, 25 December 2007 (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. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:02, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Conflict of interest
Hello. The top of my talk page says "No email unless we have had prior communications." You wrote me email anyway. Your email indicated that you need to familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's guidelines External links and Conflict of interest. You don't put links to your own site on articles here.

In your email you wrote:"Chexvictims has been an external link on Wikipedia since 1999. I do not understand how in the last year or so that it has become a problem and deemed inappropriate. At Chexvictims, I list a FREE list of banks that help those reported to chexsystems as to where I see other external links that are being inserted all the time that are trying to sell things for those reported to chexsystems. Can you please explain this? If you check your records, you will see that chexvictims was always listed there." Okay, in answer to your statements: The pattern I see regarding this link clearly indicates an attempt to attract traffic to the site. That isn't what Wikipedia is for. What you should have done instead is propose your link on the article's talk page and see if there's a community consensus to add it. ~Amatulić (talk) 04:16, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Wikipedia didn't even exist in 1999.
 * 2) The link is inappropriate because it doesn't illuminate the subject of the article beyond what's written in it, and the person who placed it in the article has a conflict of interest.
 * 3) Third, it doesn't really matter that your site is free, or what you list on it. What matters is that the link fails to comply with the two guidelines I mention above.
 * 4) Finally, the link has not "always been there". The article didn't even exist until June 2006. Your link didn't appear until 19 January 2007. It got removed 5 days later. It got added back the next day, and removed 4 days after that. Then in February 2007, it got added back, apparently inadvertantly, through a reversion attempting to remove more linkspam. Then it got removed again a few days later. Added back, removed o 23 Feb. And so on. You can hardly claim "it has always been there."


 * One other thing: If you see others spamming the article, feel free to delete the links and warn the spammer. You can put the tag:
 * on the spammer's talk page for the first offense, and escalate to subst:uw-spam2, 3, and 4, after which the spammer would be blocked. See WP:WARN for other user talk page warnings. ~Amatulić (talk) 03:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
 * on the spammer's talk page for the first offense, and escalate to subst:uw-spam2, 3, and 4, after which the spammer would be blocked. See WP:WARN for other user talk page warnings. ~Amatulić (talk) 03:25, 26 August 2008 (UTC)