User talk:Vacationeer

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! We really can use new content, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not use advertising in articles. 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! --Siobhan Hansa 19:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, the commercial links/content you added were inappropriate, as Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should not be used for advertising or a collection of external links. See the welcome page if you'd like to learn more about contributing to the encyclopedia. Thanks! -Patstuart 18:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Warning added to User talk:Vacationeer
I'm not sure why my addition was marked as spam. I found the reviews at TripAdvisor helpful for my stay at the hotel. How is a link to those reviews any different from the link to flickr photos on the page? Flickr is a commercial site as well. I don't see the difference.
 * Hi. Usually when a user posts the same website to multiple pages, he/she is usually a spammer. We don't usually look at other links on a page; just how many changes you have made, and what they were. In your case, it appears you're not a spammer, so feel free to put the links back in, and accept my apologies. To help out, I'll place this discussion on your talk page, so others don't warn you. -Patstuart 18:41, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Pat was quite correct, those links are considered to be spam. Vacationeer, your only edits so far on Wikipedia have been links to tripadvisor.com pages.  Tripadvisor is a commercial site, comparable to travelocity and expedia, and it's not appropriate to add links to it.  Thanks.  -- Jim Douglas 19:01, 27 September 2006 (UTC)