User talk:Spagaroony

May 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Binksternet (talk) 16:22, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

May 2010
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Bristol International Balloon Fiesta‎. 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 web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site 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 article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. As a single purpose editor whose only contributions seem to be to add external links for Heart FM to articles, you need to be very careful about your actions.

Hi,

I don't understand how event coverage from a local news and events team, for a local radio station, providing information and facts about the 2010 event, to a local audience, with on-air coverage, and event attendance reports for the 2010 is worse than a link to the BBC 2008 story. I guess you understand these Wikipedia nuances better than I. I'm just in the beleif that wikipedia is a reference for people wanting to know stuff?

Thanks for your guidance. Spagaroony


 * I suggest you take a look at WP:ELNO which lists the sort of links that are not acceptable on Wikipedia. The balloon fiesta link you added does not add encyclopaedic value to the wikipedia article - WIkipedia is not a travel or tourist guide - there are other sites for that such as http://wikitravel.org/  I would also suggest that you read Single-purpose account, which may explain my suspicion of your activities, as your only contributions seem to relate to Heart FM. If you have any connection with the company then you need to be aware of Wikipedia's guidelines on conflict of interest - see WP:COI. --Simple Bob (talk) 08:31, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi,

thanks again for your guidance. I just hate the whole BBC monopoly and am a bit of a local radio anorak, Heart is my favourite station, I listen to it online quite a lot, what with the leg and everything. I noticed, in this case, that Heart were making an effort, and are even a media partner to this event, and that the BBC links were either quite out of date or erroneous (eye witness account that the brdige was not fully closed). I thought the 2010 content on heart might be of some use. Sorry to take up so much of your time today.

Spagaroony


 * Feel free to take off BBC links as I did at the balloon fiesta article. --Simple Bob (talk) 09:43, 17 May 2010 (UTC)