User talk:Yellowdogs

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow 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 if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Montco (talk) 03:25, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
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Village Voyage
Montco, I have a project called, which is designed to promote local commerce, community, tourism, and everyday life within the towns it serves. You have removed some of my external links to Village Voyage on the basis that it is a low-content wiki, however it is not. In fact, with its 4.7 million articles, it is currently the largest English wiki in the world. I am collaborating with several local chamber of commerce sites (no I am not being paid for this) to help build these on-line communities in the spirit of Wikipedia, and we would appreciate your cooperation in doing so. Any feedback and thoughts on this are welcome. Thank you for your consideration. - Pat
 * I should first encourage you to read through the external link guidelines. Very clearly, this fits the description under point 12.  This is clearly an open wiki without a substantial number of editors, given a review of Auburn, Alabama's page or a history given your own edits as of Semtember 8.  The actual content is minimal and highly questionable as to whether it meets the criteria here.  The description of the city is copied from here.  So that is no good.  A review of other sections shows a number of pages with no content.  The marketplace is nothing more than a local directory which is just advertising for local companies.  Headers Pets, Optimism, Pessimism, even though they are empty, are indicative of this becoming something such as a social networking site or blog, which is also prohibited.  I could go on.  What I suspect is that this is a new project of yours.  While you have a small number of editors at this time, your hope is to promote the site by linking here in order to help you grow.  This would violate point 4 of the external link guidelines. Once your wiki has grown, I am sure it will be welcome.  Montco 23:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Nomination of WikiCity Guides for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article WikiCity Guides is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Störm  (talk)  13:08, 4 January 2019 (UTC)