User talk:Nbenoit1960

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Hello, Nbenoit1960, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing 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 and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! You may wish to join WikiProject Horse racing. However, be aware that some of your posts may run into trouble per wikipedia's guidelines at WP:NOADS and WP:RS. They appear to be self-published blog posts, if they meet WP:NEWSBLOG, that works, sometimes but not otherwise. See WP:BLOGS Good luck. Montanabw (talk) 22:12, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
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November 2014
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, as you did at Churchill Downs, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. As you did at Kentucky Derby, and Gulfstream Park, and... Stesmo (talk) 21:53, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice:. However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Just Chilling (talk) 22:55, 19 November 2014 (UTC)


 * I may have been the person to have allowed some of these links to stay originally, the articles looked decent, but I didn't realize it was a COI edit by the person who wrote the blog. I had tossed a couple that seemed too spammy, but I have to say that per WP:NEWSBLOG, this person is a decent writer.  My only concern is a question of whether there is third-party review of the site or if we also have WP:SELFPUB problems = there are some good interviews in there that could be useful here.  Nbenoit1960, my sugggestion is that if you have an article you think would be good to use here on WP, perhaps if  thinks it is OK for me to do this, maybe you could add the link on the article's talk page and one of us who work regularly on horse racing articles can take a look at it; I did this to help out some folks who had COI problems at Frank Lovato, Jr., for example.    Montanabw (talk)  05:45, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * You're an established editor with a strong familiarity with the subject matter, and as such, I wouldn't question your judgement if you felt such a link added to an article. An SPA/COI editor serially adding links is an entirely different matter. OhNo itsJamie  Talk 15:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)