User talk:Brownaddictuk

January 2008 (http://spam.helpingaddicts.net)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. 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 article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. MER-C 13:03, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

January 2008

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to User:Brownaddictuk, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from all of Wikipedia. MER-C 13:14, 19 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

Hey brownaddictUK, welcome to wikipedia. I've noticed that you put the www.helpingaddicts.net link on a couple of pages that I watch over, and wanted to give you a quick heads up on editing wikipedia. as you've probably noticed, a lot of the links were pretty quickly removed by editors because this isn't the place for them. I'm all for harm minimisation & abstaining from addictions, but this is a place to provide factual information on subjects. To put a link to an external link to a website, it has to have some further specific information about a subject, or for the purpose of verfiying information in the article. The website you added doesn't fit either of these categories.

But i would like to invite you to contribute factual information to wikipedia, judging by the list of articles you added the link to, you seem to have a fairly good knowledge of drug related issues, maybe you could share that by contributing to articles.

If you need help on how to name new articles, look at Naming Conventions, and for help on formatting the pages visit the Manual of Style. If you need general help, look at Help and the FAQ, and if you can't find your answer there, check the Village pump (for Wikipedia related questions) or the Reference Desk (for general questions). There's still more help at the Tutorial and the Policy Library. Also, don't forget to visit the Community Portal rakkar (talk) 13:37, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]