User talk:Stormie823

Wikipedia is not for SEO and self-promotion
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. OhNo itsJamie Talk 20:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Please help me Understand What I've Done Wrong
I do not believe that I was doing self promotion when I added my name. I am who I am and my site does nothing to promote me. It is a source to help people with what they need to consider before they do their website. Please explain. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stormie823 (talk • contribs).
 * The links above explain Wikipedia's policies on external links. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or search engine optimization. OhNo itsJamie Talk 18:39, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

So, I understand the policies that you sent me twice. It still doesn't explain to me how I am doing search engine optimization or promoting myself. If I'm stating facts about me how is that different than what is up there for someone else already, that in all reality, isn't truely that persons name? Do you need to be famous to have your name in Wikipedia?
 * Wikipedia does have notability requirements. Non-notable autobiographical articles are deleted every minute. OhNo itsJamie Talk 18:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Does someone else need to enter my biography?


 * If you were to have a biography on Wikipedia, then yes, you could not write it yourself. Even to make any edit to it yourself would be highly discouraged. Haakon 19:53, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Removing warnings
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Further link additions
Please stop adding commercial or personal-website links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --AbsolutDan (talk) 04:11, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Could you please explain to me how one link is a commercial or personal link promoting itself in wikipedia and others are not? I've had links that I have nothing to do with but I'm told it's still spamming.  Official sites for stuff and it's still spam??  I see a lot of links that look self promoting.  Why is it that it's only certain links that are considered spam and not others?  I've even made internal linking to other pages and it was said to be spam.  Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stormie823 (talk • contribs) 13:35, 28 September 2006  (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is currently suffering from a deluge of spam. When an editor's history consists almost solely of adding bare external links (that aren't citations and/or reliable sources (basically, if the link doesn't provide information that could be used to improve the article), then it looks a lot like Search Engine Optimization (SEO), in which a particular person is paid by other companies to strategically place links to their website(s) in places that will cause their search engine rank to rise.
 * External links do not help articles very much. Wikipedia is in need of more content and citations for that content. As we're aiming for a print version, "bare" external links don't help the project much. Please consider helping out by adding content or citations, not just plain links.
 * Regarding the wikilinks you added, it may have appeared to the editor who left that message that the links were added for promotional purposes too - perhaps he/she thought the article that they linked to wasn't appropriate for Wikipedia? You probably want to ask the person who left you the message for clarification on that one. --AbsolutDan (talk) 20:15, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your comments. I know that I just realized that you needed to change the "edit summary" line after I did additions or edits.  Unfortunately by the time I realized that it didn't matter.  So yes it does look like I add a lot of external links because it defaults to that on my computer.  I have someone that has been reverting most everything I do from the beginning so I'm about at the point to ask why should I contribute to this if I'm just going to get it reverted anyway....  Thanks! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stormie823 (talk • contribs) 20:09, 29 September 2006  (UTC)
 * I'm sorry that you're feeling frustrated. Maybe you could try some other work besides working with links. I hope you decide to stay and try contributing in other ways. There's a million cleanup tasks that we need help with. In fact, I'm going to leave a welcome message for you shortly with links to some of the tasks we need help with. --AbsolutDan (talk) 21:41, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Last warning before indef block
This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. OhNo itsJamie Talk 04:13, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

I wasn't promoting a site of mine. I was adding von dutch to custom motorcycles which I feel is a custom motorcycle or chopper. Am I incorrect? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Stormie823 (talk • contribs) 14:18, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikipedia, the greatest encyclopedia on Earth! You seem to be off to a good start. Hopefully you will soon join the vast army of Wikipediholics! You may wish to review the welcome page, tutorial, and stylebook, as well as the avoiding common mistakes and Wikipedia is not pages. The Wikipedia directory is also quite useful. In addition, you might want to add yourself to the new user log; if you made any edits before getting an account, you may wish to assign those to your username.

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Hope to see you around the Wiki! And if you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to contact me on my talk page! --AbsolutDan (talk) 21:43, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

WP Association
Just a small note, you are meant to place your word linking with the other one below that word, not replace it. Simply south 19:24, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

If you check again I went in and corrected that.

Stormie823 19:26, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, i missed that. :) Simply south 22:51, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

No Problem!Stormie823 02:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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