User talk:Helen Anne Petrie

Your page is factually VERY INCORRECT, PLEASE REFER TO http://www.wallery.org/?artist_id=10767 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.6.32.108 (talk) 16:03, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

May 2009

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Johannesburg do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Teapotgeorge^Talk 08:59, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Speedy deletion of Category:Artists reflecting Political events

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Please stop

By spamming multiple pages with identical (copyright infringing at that) material you are committing vandalism. Such vandalism will simply be reverted – quickly and every time – so your attempts at promotion will fail. But if you insist on continuing you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

If you wish to contribute in a constructive manner, please read the guidelines around conflict of interest and spam before you do anything else. 9Nak (talk) 09:34, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI conflict of interest guideline

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Factually Incorrect

http://www.wallery.org/?artist_id=10767 41.6.32.108 (talk) 16:05, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]