User talk:Timbobutcher

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. Thank you. -- Donald Albury 14:01, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for spamming or advertising. 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. -- Donald Albury 14:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

This is an appeal to Donald Albury who has blocked me indefinitely from editing Wikipedia. I am struggling to understand the wiki rules, specifically the wiki rules I have breached to justify the block you have put on me. I am also struggling to contact you to discuss this. Might you consider emailing me on timbobutcher@gmail.com so I can get to the bottom of this matter. I am fully happy to be blocked if you think the material I added is in breach of your rules but I wanted to point out that the material I have added is intended to add to, not exploit, the Wiki archive. I did a trip in 2009 along the route used in 1935 through Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, by Graham Greene. He wrote a book about his journey, called Journey Without Maps, a book of sufficient interest that it has its own Wiki page. I added my book as further reading on this subject as my book not only shows what has happened to the places visited by Greene but also reveals new material about him and the journey. I thought this was a reasonable addition to the Journey Without Maps page. If you think not then please let me know what wiki rules that breaches. Similarly, the Greene material in my book and the discoveries about Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and towns/places in those countries would, I believe, add to a wiki reader's knowledge of the relevant pages for those places.

If you could reconsider your blocking or at least let me know your thinking I would be most grateful.

With thanks

Tim Butcher — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timbobutcher (talk • contribs)


 * Please see Wikipedia:Spam, which is a guideline for content in Wikipedia, and in particular, the section on BOOKSPAM. Also, I blocked your account per the Blocking policy. I've reviewed your edits both under this user name, and from an IP address you used four years ago), and the only edits I see from you are to the article about you, and to indiscriminately add mention of your books to many articles. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, it is not a vehicle for promoting your books. If any of your books are useful as a source for an article in Wikipedia, please let other authors add the appropriate content to that article and properly cite your book(s). Frankly, you have had an account for almost four years, and have contributed nothing to Wikipedia, other than the edits to your own article. I see no reason to lift the block. You may still appeal this block by following the instructions above, which will alert other administrators to review the block. -- Donald Albury 15:28, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Please, take some time to:
 * Explain in detail what was wrong with your edits and why,
 * Explain how exactly you intend to change your behavior if unblocked,
 * Describe in general terms the contributions that you intend to make if you are unblocked.  Vanjagenije  (talk)  22:33, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Unblocked
I have unblocked you. Seven years seems long enough. I hope you make some useful contributions to Wikipedia. --Donald Albury 22:26, 4 March 2018 (UTC)