User talk:Pauldack

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August 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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 for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Since 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Apparition11 Complaints / Mistakes  16:35, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

October 2009
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Jarrow. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. • Anakin (talk) 12:09, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Hebburn, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. 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. • Anakin (talk) 11:33, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

My apologies. I added my sites to Wikipedia as I noticed that another local website, Hebburn.org was added to the Hebburn page. My sites aim to promote local community sipirt and are prooving quite popular. As Hebbrun.org was allowed, I assumed my sites would be? Pauldack (talk) 11:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Can I please ask why Hebburn.org is allowed but HebburLife.co.uk is rejected? Pauldack (talk) 11:57, 21 October 2009 (UTC)


 * While External links is but a guideline, in my humble opinion that site (http://www.hebburn.org), although it has a message board, has more encyclopedic value, being primarily a resource for historical information and photos, while your forums seem to be primarily social sites, which fails External links. (Though it wouldn't surprise me if someone eventually objected to the other links too, since Wikipedia is not a directory of links).
 * However If you believe your sites have real value in those articles you could try gaining support for them on their talk pages (which don't actually seem to have many people watching them), or at Help desk (will get a quicker response). • Anakin (talk) 12:05, 21 October 2009 (UTC)