User talk:Waltersmind

February 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page QB64 has been reverted. Your edit here to QB64 was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://digitalknifemonkeyproductions.webs.com/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 20:51, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to QB64. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Guy Macon (talk) 21:51, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

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Guy Macon, Please explain to me how my links are inappropriate for this web page. I have been part of the QB64 community since 2011, and I started The QB64 Edition long before QB64.org came into the picture. If there are any external links that should not be on this page it is "Black Annex is the best QBASIC game you've ever seen - an indie video game compiled in QB64 (incorrectly stated to be QBASIC game in the article)". The QB64 Edition (located at qb64.thejoyfulprogrammer.com) is primarily about sharing various projects created in QB64, and to socialize with other QB64 programmers. It was created in 2014 when QB64.net (the official web site of QB64) went down for two weeks and we didn't know when it would be back up.

In my point of view, the links to my QB64 programming forum is just as viable and legit as QB64.org (another official QB64 partner site), and far more valuable then the "Black Annex" link. I feel that the "Black Annex" link should be removed and mine put back in.

If my links (in the external link section and in the infobox) are inappropriate, then I would appreciate a good reason as to why that is, and what makes the other links appropriate.

--Waltersmind (talk) 23:07, 1 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Not answered because you posted the exact same question on my talk page and I answered there. Please pick one location to have a discussion rather than spamming it to multiple places. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:41, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

(Answer moved from my talk page. It is rather annoying when someone asks a question and then does not respond to the answer.) --Guy Macon (talk) 08:21, 9 February 2018 (UTC)


 * (This concerns this edit:.)


 * You are correct about the black annex link. I have removed it as spam.


 * Before I spend a lot of time explaining why you shouldn't add links to your own work to Wikipedia, please read the following pages: Plain and simple conflict of interest guide, Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia, Best practices for editors with close associations, and Conflict of interest. Once you have read understand our policies, I will be happy to discuss with you how to add links to your own work to Wikipedia without violating our policies. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:38, 2 February 2018 (UTC)


 * (...Sound of crickets...) --Guy Macon (talk) 08:21, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Hello, Waltersmind. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about in the article QB64, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. Editing for the purpose of advertising or promotion is not permitted. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:


 * avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, company, organization or competitors;
 * propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (see the request edit template);
 * disclose your COI when discussing affected articles (see WP:DISCLOSE);
 * avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
 * do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID). Thank you. --Guy Macon (talk) 08:21, 9 February 2018 (UTC)