User talk:Mwb721

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Hello, Mwb721, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 03:45, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
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January 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Joël Robuchon 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. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 03:45, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. Please remember to mark your edits, such as your recent edits to Joël Robuchon, as "minor" only if they truly are minor edits. In accordance with Help:Minor edit, a minor edit is one that the editor believes requires no review and could never be the subject of a dispute. Minor edits consist of things such as typographical corrections, formatting changes, or rearrangement of text without modification of content. Additionally, the reversion of clear-cut vandalism and test edits may be labeled "minor". Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 03:45, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Guy Savoy. 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. Thank you.

Before attempting to add any more Travels in Taste links, please explain, here on your talk page, how these links contribute to the understanding of the subjects. They appear to just facilitate making reservations at the subject(s') restaurants. —C.Fred (talk) 03:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Masa (restaurant). 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.

Please reply here on why you think the Travels in Taste links comply with the Wikipedia guidelines for external links. If you continue to place the links in articles, continue to inappropriately mark the additions as minor edits, and continue to give no explanation (either here or in a edit summary) about why the links should be added, your edits are likely to be interpreted as blatantly promtional, and your account will be blocked. —C.Fred (talk) 04:26, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for link-spamming. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. —C.Fred (talk) 04:41, 13 January 2011 (UTC)