User talk:Mejohn7779

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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! TimTay (talk) 15:08, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
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I inserted a link to http://www.BuyTeaTreeOil.com, which is strictly an information site with no product & it was deleted. Why?
 * The address makes it look like spam. Discuss it with user talk:TimTay who removed it.  Gtstricky Talk or C 15:29, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The external link does not contain any information that is already listed and referenced in this article. I accept that it wasn't spam in the selling stuff sense, but it is just a personal website and as such it adds no value to this Wikipedia article. --TimTay (talk) 15:50, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The site fails on quite a few of the criteria listed in WP:LINKSTOAVOID --TimTay (talk) 15:53, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

September 2008
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. ''Your edits to this article and to Foot both look like spam (again!). You were warned as an IP user and came close to being banned. Now you have registered an account and persist in adding the same spam links. Please stop. Contribute to articles but do more than add links to websites which have either questionable value or are selling something as this site is.'' TimTay (talk) 19:21, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi Tim, I am sorry. It is not my intention to spam. I posted only links I felt were relevent to the topics. Some were mine, and some were not. I thought the internet & wikipedia were all about getting the most relevent information on topics. The links I posted were full of unique content that I thought would be of value to the readers. I also have websites that are for sales, but did not post any of them. I am sorry you thought I was spamming. I will not post any more links. Mejohn7779 (talk) 14:04, 26 September 2008 (UTC)


 * No problem. If you read the guidance in WP:LINKSTOAVOID and the other sections on that page you'll see that external links should be used for pages that add value rather than simply repeat what is already on the page, or its references. Please do continue contributing but consider doing this by adding content into articles rather than by linking sites outside wikipedia. If you need any help or guidance, just ask. Some of the warnings can seem a bit formal and overbearing - but they are machine generated templates and sometimes to me they seem like overkill. --TimTay (talk) 16:01, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi tim, I have a problem: One of the sites I posted, cheesemakingrecipe.com, was an acquaintance's site. He did not request for me to post it, nor did he have any knowledge of what I was doing. Now, if you type cheesemakingrecipe.com into google, it comes up as wikipedia spam. Also, all his other sites, which I did not post, such as meaningsdream.com, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=meaningsdream.com&aq=f&oq= now come up as wikipedia spam. Of less concern, but still a concern, every site that I have made, such as BuySoapNuts.com, which I never posted on wikipedia come up as wikipedia spam. You acknowledged in our correspondence that I was not attempting to spam Wikipedia, and when you requested that I no longer post links, I did not. Please REMOVE all references to spam related the above-mentioned links, along with BuyTeaTreeOil.com and kilometersmiles.com.

Thank you,

Matt Johnson