User talk:Michael Steiner

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March 2013
Hello, Michael Steiner. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people or things you have written about on Wikipedia, be careful. People close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may make them mistakenly add overly-flattering or overly-disparaging content. So please read our plain and simple conflict of interest guide. Here's a partial summary of its advice:


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Thank you. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 14:57, 12 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Whether or not it's the intent, your edits look a lot like WP:SPAM. 99.137.210.226 (talk) 14:57, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Drmies (talk) 15:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC) All that said, I appeal to you, here, to unblock me. If you say no, I suppose I need to figure out how to appeal to someone else? Michael Steiner (talk) 16:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Mr. Steiner, this talk page will work very well as a means of communication; no need to email me. Your COI is evident, and adding the links to the agent's website can serve only one single purpose--and it's not an encyclopedic purpose. I note that that was the only thing you were doing on Wikipedia. We already allow links to the subject's website, which can already easily be deemed promotional, and one would assume that a smart subject will have a link to the agency on their website. So, no, we simply cannot allow such links. Having said that, you are free to place an unblock request to see if another administrator feels differently. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 17:10, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Mr. Steiner, you can post on this talk page. People are watching, and if needs be you can place a help me request as explained in the very first message on this page. If you wish to create an article for that agency, you'll have to ask to be unblocked first. Adding a line in someone's article that they're represented by this or that agency strikes me as more important for the wallet than for the benefit of knowledge, but that's just me. Drmies (talk) 18:11, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Drmies. Hope this works.  I cannot place a "help me" request because I'm blocked, or maybe I'm not doing it right.  So okay, (1) I won't post info regarding who the agent is (although some authors have a better relationship with their agent than they have with their spouses! so it's as relevant as a husband or wife; also, I saw other authors with information as to who their agent is, but that doesn't make it right -- just 'cuz someone else is doing it), (2) no links (although I'd think a link to an authorized biography would be appropriate, but I suppose there's a point to the argument that it does seem "commercial" which is not wikipedia), I can respect that.  Lastly, I figured if I used my real name and made it perfectly apparent as to who (namely me) was posting what, that might give me some bonafides.  Looks like I might have had a better chance being anonymous.  Oh well...