User talk:Mercury the messenger

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! Doug Weller (talk) 06:29, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

July 2015
Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Geography of the Odyssey because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Doug Weller (talk) 06:29, 14 July 2015 (UTC)


 * It also fails our criteria for sources, see WP:SPS. Now if it has had serious discussion in clearly reliably published sources, we might be able to use those, see WP:UNDUE. We are an encyclopedia and thus not a venue for new ideas, although of course many new users don't realise that at first. Doug Weller (talk) 06:38, 14 July 2015 (UTC)