User talk:Documentation

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External links

Please note that Wikipedia has policies regarding external links. Also review What Wikipedia is not for more information. Thank you. Mind matrix 19:19, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

October 2007

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Nikon D70. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — Indon (reply) — 21:07, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Canon EOS 300D, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from any site that uses the MediaWiki spam blacklist, which includes all of Wikimedia and Wikipedia. — Indon (reply) — 21:13, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You have been temporarily blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. Nishkid64 (talk) 21:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nishkid64 (talk) 21:16, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. On many keyboards, the tilde is entered by holding the Shift key, and pressing the key with the tilde pictured. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! - CobaltBlueTony 18:08, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:

If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Wikipedia:Changing username and follow the guidelines there.

Thank you. - CobaltBlueTony 18:09, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

External links

Please compare your contributions with the guideline of how not to be a spammer. — Indon (reply) — 08:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Documentation (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I have found the links to the documentation and customer service links to be very valuable. I recently signed up for an account at the company that provides the service. I found the information to be so valuable I petitioned the company to remove the typical sign in / sign up header they normaly place on their public pages. It appears the recent news about Wikipedia administrators may be correct... they bias articles in their own view of value and truth. I hope this is not true with respect to your area of responsibility

Decline reason:

If anything, a longer block might have been in order: you have made no contributions to Wikipedia beyond the addition of external links to personalfile.com. Please take the time off to consider reading Wikipedia's guideline on external links and its policy on spam. Please note that your insistence might lead to this website being blacklisted.— Pascal.Tesson 06:44, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

Myopic Views On Documentation & User Value

Given the less than objective views carried by some Wikipedia editors valuable documentaion and user resources are being deleted from Wikipedia articles. It appears the news reports today on these less than truthful editors are true. Unless added content is viewed to be valuable from their eyes, it will never be viewed as valuable to the growth of the Wikipedia community. To those that choose to blindly delete valuable documentation I suggest they ask the following question... would my spouse, son, daughter, father or mother find the information to be valuable as they manage the products they use everyday. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Documentation (talk • contribs) 06:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Your changes are being reverted for a myriad of reasons:

Personalfile.com is a new site and when you first started adding links to it registration was required. That made it appear like you were trying to drum up traffic and new user registrations for that site.
It's suspicious that shortly after I reverted some of your changes pointing out the required registration the site changed its policies.
Your method of editing goes against item two of Wikipedia's spam policy, and also item one as it appears that you're somehow affiliated with that website.
Your method of linking to that site in numerous articles one right after the other is suspect, especially since what most of these articles have in common is that they just happen to have information pages on that site.
You circumvented the first temporary block of your account by creating another account, ProductResource, to continue posting links.
It has been brought up on your discussion page that your user name may not meet Wikipedia's username policy.
The wording you use when linking is misleading: "<PRODUCT NAME> Documentation & Customer Service". It doesn't provide access to documentation nor customer service for the product, it just links to it.

Pointing the finger at other editors claiming they aren't be truthful is ironic since it seems that you're the one being untruthful. If you truly want to help the quality of articles on Wikipedia don't ignore, fight, or try to discredit other editors. There's plenty of people here willing to work with you, but only if you don't step on their toes. Gh5046 06:46, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I do not wish to step on any toes. I have found useful External Links and only wish to share my findings with other Wikipedia users. You can see I am new to this Wikipedia community. As a user of many of the products that appear on Wikipedia I feel it it important to share my knowledge of valuable information with others, just as you do. There are many commercial sites referenced in External Links. I have no affiliation with the company's web site. I find want they do to be a valuable information service that is no different than the product reviews that also exist in External Links. You allow these links so I question why you don't allow links to documentaion and customer services.

The Solution?

Wow, I didn't realise wikipedia was going towards each and every piece of hardware! I've always wished for a central site that had the manuals, specs and patches in one place ( after experiencing busted companies and losing links to such, so the site your linking to seems a good idea.

Problem is if a link is put in to a non-manufacturers site which one, should be equal opportunities and then you end up with a long list of links and wikipedia isn't a link portal. :(

Closest I can come to a solution is a link on each piece to another page say see also: manual repository and on that page a selection of alternative ways of finding documentation, well ok it's only start of a solution ... Leevanjackson 22:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]