User talk:Keverding

December 2009

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. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:14, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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 will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Not only have you ignored the above warning, but you have also restored a deleted spam link at Chip Kidd. Please stop. JamesBWatson (talk) 19:22, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[[Thanks for letting us know that there's a problem. We are adding links to online resources that we have (in this case, interviews with authors) about existing Wikipedia entries on those authors.

We are new to Wikipedia, so maybe we are not going about it the right way. How else are we supposed to do this? Our interviews are vetted, credible, and informative and would add to the Wikipedia resource.]]

Hello, Keverding. You have new messages at JamesBWatson's talk page.
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Thank you for your message on my user talk page. I have now looked more carefully at your links, and I have decided they were not, as I first thought, spam links. They look fine to me, and I have restored them. Sorry about this, but I am one of a number of Wikipedians who spend a lot of time checking for abuse of Wikipedia, and when I saw a new editor whose only activity was adding links, all to the same site, and without giving any explanation, it looked exactly like the typical activity of a spammer. i am glad you raised the question on my talk page, so that I have been able to correct my error. As for the vandalism warning above, I shall give the editor who posted it a note explaining the situation, and you can delete it if you like. However, I do strongly advise you to always give a brief note about what you are doing in the "Edit summary" box (underneath the main editing box) whenever you edit an article. That will give some idea of what you are doing, and reduce the risk of misunderstanding. JamesBWatson (talk) 12:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help with this. I appreciate your advice to use the "Edit summary" box and will do so in the future. Thanks again and have a great day! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Keverding (talk • contribs) 16:53, 17 December 2009

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