User talk:Paul Dublin

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June 2018
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Glenties. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website 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 page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. ''Also on Gary, Indiana. Links to a person's bio on their agent's website is far more promotional than encyclopedic. Doing it on multiple articles, linking to the same speakers bureau website certainly appears to be spamming, even if that is not your intention.'' John from Idegon (talk) 15:09, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to List of people from Dublin. 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. John from Idegon (talk) 15:15, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Seasalter. 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. ''It seems you either have a fundamental disconnect with what an encyclopedia is, or you are intentionally spamming. Encyclopedias are made up of content paraphrased from reliable secondary sources. Altho the website you are repeatedly adding is a secondary source, its reliability is dubious at best, as its purpose is to promote the very people you are tagging the citation to. It serves no purpose. I can see from your contribution list that there are several more of these additions. As a gesture of good faith, I'm going to give you a chance to self revert the rest. Otherwise, my next step is necessarily reporting you to the administrative team with an eye toward having your editing priveleges suspended.'' John from Idegon (talk) 15:28, 1 June 2018 (UTC)