User talk:Secretarmy

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Brixham, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Simple Boba.k.a. The Spaminator (Talk) 08:58, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
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your edits
As a newbie you were treated a bit harshly I feel, but adding to external links willy-nilly is wrong. If you add content to articles (a sentence where it belongs) and add a reference to the website to support the content you add, that may be OK. WP:COI IS a problem, but if declared and if a non-commercial site and if a non-contentious article then is generally considered OK. have a look at WP:CITE, WP:REF and and have another go and ask if you encounter difficulty. Regards (Crusoe8181 (talk) 11:03, 16 July 2011 (UTC)).
 * Also, there is a problem with your account, as you stated We are a not for profit voluntary group and have added all those links to our site so people may learn more; per WP:NOSHARE, user accounts can only represent individuals. Sharing an account – or the password to an account – with others is not permitted, and doing so will result in the account being blocked. Salvio  Let's talk about it! 11:10, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Well Salvio the account is not shared or the password given out to anyone else. The account is set up as me, an individual. God, why are you lot so negative? I am trying to share my free research so that others might learn. I am not promoting a business or making money.....Cut me some slack


 * People are giving you good advice and you are biting them. If you want to keep your account and not have your site blacklisted from Wikipedia it would be best to listen to the advice that you are being given by experienced editors, read the links provided, and stop being so aggressive. --Simple Boba.k.a. The Spaminator (Talk) 11:47, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Copyright violation
Your edits to Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team were reverted for two reasons - the first is the obvious conflict of interest and the largely promotional nature of the language used, but the other more important reason was copyright violation (WP:COPYVIO). You cannot copy/paste information, even if you own the website from which it is taken, unless the information on that website has been irrevocably released under a licence compatible with Wikipedia. Right now your website has a strong copyright message. If you want any information from your website to be reproduced on WIkipedia then you should read Donating copyrighted materials. --Simple Boba.k.a. The Spaminator (Talk) 12:00, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

July 2011
I am sure that you are editing in good faith, and probably don't understand why you are continually being reverted. Here are a few of the reasons why your edits are seen as unacceptable.
 * 1) You say "I am trying to share my free research so that others might learn". However, Wikipedia is not a publisher of original research. Only material which has received substantial recognition in multiple reliable sources is acceptable.
 * 2) Linking to your site in order to attract people to it is promotion of your site. The fact that you say you are "not promoting a business or making money"is irrelevant: Wikipedia is not a medium for promotion of anything, commercial or otherwise. You may lie to look at Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause.
 * 3) You said "You have no right to do this as it is a page about our group." However, a group does not own a Wikipedia article about it, and has not authority to dictate to other Wikipedia editors what editing they may or may not do to the article. In fact, on the contrary, if you are, as you say, the owner, then Wikipedia's guideline on conflict of interest strongly discourages you from editing the article. If you think that there are factual inaccuracies in the article then you can mention them on the article's talk page and ask for an independent, impartial, editor to consider making changes that you suggest, but you should not be adding significant content yourself, and certainly not controversial content. (Adding helpme to a page will alert other users to the fact that there is a request for help there.)

I have come here because of a report about you at Administrator intervention against vandalism, but having looked at your contributions, I see them not as vandalism but rather as perfectly good faith edits by a newcomer who does not yet understand how Wikipedia works, so I have taken the trouble to try to explain the situation to you, in the hope that it will help. Please feel very welcome to contact me on my talk page if you need further help. I hope you will be able to continue to contribute to Wikipedia without further problems, but I also hope you understand why what you have been doing so far has been found unacceptable. If you can understand that you will be able to avoid being blocked from editing, which is what would have happened if you had continued in the same way. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:10, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks James. And thank you for understanding and not being rude. I am new and will take on board all your comments for any future posts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.97.121.56 (talk) 13:18, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 48 hours for continuing to add promotional links, despite efforts by several editors to explain why they are unacceptable. 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, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. JamesBWatson (talk) 13:29, 16 July 2011 (UTC)