User talk:Vegan Connie

July 2023
This is your only warning; if you insert a spam link to Wikipedia again, as you did at Comfort food, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. ''... and Egg substitutes. Your blog website is not WP:RS.'' Zefr (talk) 01:04, 27 July 2023 (UTC)


 * I sincerely apologize. It was never my intention to insert spam, quite the opposite. I was trying to provide a credible reference for the article. It won’t happen again. Thank you. 75.50.127.80 (talk) 05:30, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Zefr: I appreciate your comments in your previous message and want you to know I take them seriously. As someone who is an avid user of Wikipedia, it is important to me to know that the content I find is current and accurate. I also know how frustrating it is when a topic I am researching is missing references and citations, or even more annoying, broken links. That is why, when I discovered dead links on the Egg Substitutes page, I replaced one with a link to an article specific to the subject from my vegan recipe blog. You mention in your message that my blog website is not WP:RS. I looked up the requirements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blogs_as_sources and found this statement: Is the article you're sourcing via a blog of a non-biographical nature (i.e., about computer science? Cooking? History about deceased individuals?) from a website that is known in the relevant subject circles as a source or authority? If the specific author of the specific blog post an expert or authority? In either case, the blog post may be fine to use. I believe my 40+ years experience developing egg-free, dairy-free, vegan recipes along with the content I create and share with thousands of followers worldwide would help establish the reliability of my blog website. I do hope you might reconsider restoring my edit, as the current version is once again, a broken link. Thank you kindly. Connie Vegan Connie (talk) 01:15, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
 * If you truly wish to both contribute to and benefit from the wealth of knowledge at Wikipedia, it would be better to find textbooks, recipe books, newspaper sources or objective published assessments of recipes rather than promoting your own website, however experienced you are or popular your site is. Other Wikipedia editors and administrators will see your citations to your own site as self-promotion, WP:PROMO, and a conflict of interest, WP:COI, which, if persistent, will lead to a block from editing.
 * Use Wikipedia to deepen your learning about ingredients and foods by doing research from the individual articles to make them better supported by independent WP:RS sources and clearer for the common user by your copyediting. This way, everyone wins. Zefr (talk) 13:23, 28 July 2023 (UTC)