User talk:Molympus


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June 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Graham Bell (singer) has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://musiciansolympus.blogspot.com/2009/12/grahambell-vocals.html. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 09:57, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page John Hedley 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://musiciansolympus.blogspot.com/2009/12/johnhedley-guitar.html. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 10:01, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Stevie Vann. 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. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://musiciansolympus.blogspot.com/2009/12/stevielange-vocals.html. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 10:04, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Mark Griffiths. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://musiciansolympus.blogspot.com/2009/12/markgriffiths-guitar.html. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 10:11, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

This is your final warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you add inappropriate external links, as you did with this edit to Clive Edwards. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:25, 25 June 2010 (UTC) Your account has been indefinitely blocked from editing for Persistent spamming. If you feel this block is unjustified, you may contest it by adding the text below. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Emailed message
The following is copied from an email that this editor sent me:

I've received a blocking message from you. Sorry, maybe I've done somebody wrong. My name´s Miguel Terol, and I'm the webmaster of a website called "The Musicians' Olympus", where I write my own bios about some of my favourite musicians. I started my website back in 1997, but as it was hosted in Yahoo Geocities, it was deleted when they stopped hosting. I started it all again, now inside Google´s Blogger.

Up to now, I had never contributed to Wikipedia, but along the last years, I've seen how some people had included links to my biographies inside Wikipedia (for example: you can find them in entries for Colin Hodgkinson, Jimmy McCulloch, the band Gonzalez, the band Stretch). And I repeat, I didn't include these links by myself, nor asked anyone to do that.

Today, I've thought of changing some of the old, not-working links, with the new ones, as I've started doing with Graham Bell (singer).

Don't know if I'm doing it wrong, but my blog doesn't contain download links (i.e. MP3 or videos to download). They're only text, and it's written 100% by me.

So if you were so kind to write me back, giving me some indication about what I'm doing wrong or what I shouldn't do, it would be very appreciated. I didn't want to spam, as "accused". If you want to take a look at my site, you can check that all I'm saying is true.

Anyway, thanks for all. Wikipedia is a magnificent thing, and anyone working for it deserves a congratulation.

Best regards, Miguel Terol

The Musicians' Olympus: http://musiciansolympus.blogspot.com

Response to the above email
I suggest looking at the guideline on external links, particularly the section on links to avoid. As you will see there, generally speaking links to blogs are not acceptable. In addition to this, the fact that 100% of your edits were adding of links to one blog made it look very much like linking to promote that blog. Another issue is the fact that you continued to add these links, even when you had been warned five times that they were not acceptable. From what you have now written it is clear that this is your own blog, which raises the question of a possible conflict of interest. Even if you are perfectly sincere in intending to make unbiased contributions, it can be difficult to see an objective perspective on a subject in which you have a close personal involvement. Despite these problems, since you have expressed a willingness to learn and move on I will lift the block, so that you can make constructive contributions to Wikipedia. If you have any further questions please feel very welcome to contact me on my talk page. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:56, 28 June 2010 (UTC)

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