User talk:Nolaimports/Archive 1

Self Advertising
Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --ArmadilloFromHell 16:27, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

If you wish to participate in our project to build a free content encyclopedia, you are welcome here. Edits whose only purpose here is to promote a business or website are not appropriate. If your edits here continue to be only advertising, you may be blocked from editing. With this warning given, I again emphasize that non-commerical edits by you to improve the quality of the encyclopedia are welcome. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 16:45, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Removing Content
Please refrain from removing content from Wikipedia, as you did to New Orleans Mardi Gras. It is considered vandalism. If you want to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. -- Armadillo From Hell 01:05, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Response to Removing Content
Okay so what's going on with the New Orleans Mardi Gras contribution? It seems to be a bit "clickish" very much resembling the Mardi Gras click sites around the web. We did everything by the book referring to the talk page which had NO, ZERO, NADA info concerning contributions that had been made, plans for the future or anything, period. We made a very legitimate contribution that was deleted without any explanation or discussion as ya'll like to call it here on Wikipedia. I also noticed that nola.com's link was removed, and if anyone has claims to promoting Mardi Gras in this city, it should be them. Further more half of the people making contributions to this section don't even live in this city but are only doing so to further promote their weak at best sites. Admin wherever you may be I implore you to get a grasp of this section of Wikipedia as it seems there is a bit of dictatorship going on which in essence is killing the whole spirit of what Wikipedia should be. I understand ya'll all have a great interest in Mardi Gras whether it is finical or other wise but to blantly try to push out new sites who have ligament contributions just sums up the clickish cut throat nature of some in the Mardi Gras industry. It is mighty funny that the "Mardi Gras" contribution has massive amounts of discussion pertaing to contributions on it's talk page but "Mardi Gras New Orleans" had none. I bet that was deleted too? So let me be the first to open the discussion on whether the following is acceptable to this contribution or not. Ceramic Mardi Gras Mask Ceramic Mardi Gras Masks are unique and original pieces of art work from New Orleans. The Fancy Ceramic Mardi Gras Masks are usually poured, sculpted, and handpainted by many native artists in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ceramic Mardi Gras masks are usually designed to be displayed as decorations and are not generally worn as face mask. They are almost as old as Mardi Gras itself and although not part of a costume, they have been handed out at balls and some of the earlier works signed "Sally New Orleans" are some of the most sought after collectibles on the web. Of course this will be cleaned up to contain links to other Wikipedia reference contributions but I think you should get the picture of the direction we are trying to go with this contribution, which was so blantly deleted. I wonder if the user who deleted nola.coms contribution got a message from the admin as well? I somehow doubt it. We also made a contribution for "Mardi Gras 2007" which was original and not yet contributed in anyway which contained links to the "Mardi Gras New Orleans" contributions and this was deleted as well. The click has been busy. So ADMIN wherever you may be and correct me if I am wrong but I think one of the contributors to this section has found their way into the admin area, although a conflict of interest, please keep an open mind when reading our comments but this has been an ongoing problem with the Mardi Gras "click" for some time. It is mighty funny that we made another contributions to an unrelated Mardi Gras item and it has not been deleted, bumped, etc, etc. Hmmmm...why does it have to be so conserveral when it comes to Mardi Gras. I can only suspect that the "MG click" has had a hand in it. This is exactly the sort of thing that gives New Orleans Mardi Gras a bad name. Les Bon Temps Roulez!--Nolaimports 05:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)nolaimports


 * Nothing "clickish" at all. Every edit of yours I saw (for all I know, there may have been others which I havn't) were promoting the commerical enterprise which shares your user name. This is against Wikipedia policy, as has been explained on here on your user talk page with links to details you can read. You were told "Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia" and " non-commerical edits by you to improve the quality of the encyclopedia are welcome." I think that's pretty clear. Take a bit of time reading the first 4 links which Armadillo posted above if you need a more detailed explanation. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 10:48, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * In addition you created a number of new article pages on various topics which were speedily deleted as the whole purpose of each article was to promote your commercial link. (Note that since I did not delete them, a number of different admins would have looked at these pages.) There is no record of these pages, since they have been deleted, but for the record, they typically looked like this : http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doubloons&oldid=72205878 -- Armadillo From Hell 13:29, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * This is the contribution we would like to add:

"Ceramic Mardi Gras Mask Ceramic Mardi Gras Masks are unique and original pieces of art work from New Orleans. The Fancy Ceramic Mardi Gras Masks are usually poured, sculpted, and handpainted by many native artists in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ceramic Mardi Gras masks are usually designed to be displayed as decorations and are not generally worn as face mask. They are almost as old as Mardi Gras itself and although not part of a costume, they have been handed out at balls and some of the earlier works signed "Sally New Orleans" are some of the most sought after collectibles on the web." Someone please tell us how to do it. If it is acceptable. I also have some original pictures I would like to add but I assume that is a no go too.--Nolaimports 18:50, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Adding information that is factual, notable, and verifiable in a way that is not an attempt to promote a business or other commerical purpose is appropriate. I'd reccomend you read Notability and Verifiability and make sure what you write fits such guidelines. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 11:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Please do not remove legitimate warnings from your talk page or replace them with inappropriate content. Removing or maliciously altering warnings from your talk page will not remove them from the page history. You're welcome to archive your talk page, but be sure to provide a link to any deleted legitimate comments. If you continue to remove or vandalize legitimate warnings from your talk page, you will lose your privilege of editing your talk page. Thanks. -- Armadillo From Hell 23:17, 10 September 2006 (UTC)