User talk:Undertheheavens

July 2008
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. 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. ''You added inappropriate external links to numerous articles. You need to review WP:EL.''  DDStretch    (talk)  10:46, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

It would appear that I have contravened the rules for editing pages on Wikipedia and feel that I must appologise profusely, in my defence may I say that my intentions were purely innocent. Placing a link to a specific yourlocalweb town/county pages was never intended to be a form of spam, simply a way of providing further information specific to the place in question.

I am a new user to Wikipedia which is hardly much of an excuse for this type of behaviour however, I sincerely promise not to repeat this error again and would politely like to ask for my block to be lifted.

Please be assured to know that yourlocalweb is not and I repeat not, a spam sight, it exists purely as a portal for the thousands of community websites that find difficulty in being found via the usual search engines,

Not much point going on here other than to again offer my sincere apologies and the fact that this will never happen again.

Lastly, A quick visit to yourlocalweb and our full contact details can be found at the bottom of every page of our website in an attempt to reveal our integrity. Undertheheavens (talk) 12:14, 1 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I expected so much, and I assume you are related to the other two accounts (one named, one IP) adding these links. Please understand, we are writing an encyclopedia here, not a linkfarm.  The question is not if a link that is added is spam, the question is, is it appropriate for being used here, either as an external link, or as a reference.  These link-additions (the action) is the problem, and that is what we define as spam here (see our spam guideline).
 * I am dropping another warning template here:

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
 * 1) editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
 * 2) participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
 * 3) linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Spam); and,
 * 4) avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines.


 * and I am giving you a second chance, removing the block. Please discuss on talkpages, and please do not add the link again without discussion ánd consensus somewhere (or even better, let uninvolved, established editors add the link), and when further concerns arise, please actively discuss.
 * I hope this explains, and happy editing. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:48, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Your edit to a.o. Channel Islands
This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:12, 1 August 2008 (UTC)



indefblocked

(block removed per above discussion) --Dirk Beetstra T  C 12:52, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello Wikipedia,

In the first instance may I thank everyone concerned for responding in the most positive way to my request of unblocking the editing facility on my account, further, please be assured that everything possible is being done to avoid such happenings in the future.

Unfortunately I fear that there may (as suspected) be third parties involved here who in the past may have contributed to this type of activity on behalf of yourlocalweb - believing of course, that they were working in the best interests of my company.

I’m looking into this as we speak but for everybody’s sake (including myself) I sincerely hope this situation has now been completely resolved however, when and if I’m able to find out the person/persons involved, then please be assured that I will take the strongest of views regarding their conduct.

To follow up on these activities, may I say that we are genuinely trying to bring awareness to the thousands of local community websites so often lost by the normal search engine methods?

For Wikipedia this must surely be an ongoing problem? It would appear to me that there must be thousands of local websites trying to get their voices across by every means possible (which must mean of course), trying to include themselves on Wikipedia?

Yet it is the most simplest of things to do on yourlocalweb simply because that is what we are all about.

Every page on yourlocalweb has been given an opportunity for users to submit their community website for our moderators to consider, note (there is no automated facility here, the service is totally free of charge and all websites found suitable have been carefully vetted using our strict policy against racism, adult material etc.

To get to the point!

Do you not think that there may be a way forward here!

Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to sell our product merely suggesting that perhaps some thought might be given to alleviating an ongoing problem for us all.

A simple link from Wikipedia to yourlocalweb might be an easy way of solving a magnitude of the moderators work at your end.

To sum-up…We are always looking for community websites to include on our web pages, perhaps a simple mention of this on Wikipedia could help us both.

As a final note,

Please forgive me if this idea sounds simplistic or presumptuous, I mean no offence, I am just trying to offer some open thoughts on the matter, that said, may I once again thank you for unblocking my edit facility also, for taking the time to read this rather lengthy message.

Kind regards,

Paul. Undertheheavens (talk) 17:57, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Please do not remove
 * Tracking data:
 * http://www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/
 * Google Adsense ID: 0620813703700378

Related domains: -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 02:41, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * http://www.localfarmproduce.net
 * http://www.kingslangley.org
 * http://www.yourlocalweb.com
 * http://www.yourlocalweb.com
 * http://www.yourlocalweb.com