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Bryce (talk | contribs) 02:21, 3 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Spam issue

Hi. I noticed that you added a lot of external links on different articles towards http://elitemensguide.com/. This looks a lot like spam which is agains Wikipedia guidelines. I do not know if you have any particular interest in promoting this website or simply thinks is a good website. But would you please stop adding these links? If you think that this website has some information to the general reader and I am misinterpreting the situation please let me know and I will listen. But please do not add any more of these links until you have presented a good argument to why these have some for of value for Wikipedia and is not just spam. In case this is deliberately spamming I can tell you that these link are classified as non-follow links meaning that they will not count toward a higher listing at Google or any other search engine, that all statistics show that the fewest number of readers click on our external links and that I gladly will hold my other contributions to Wikipedia and spend my time deleting every single added. So this is a case of deliberate spamming, and I am not saying that it is, it will only waste both your and my time and have zero effect on the promotion of the webpage. By the way I also copied this discussion to WikiProject Anatomy, since many of the articles in question falls under this scope, where I hope you and I can have a productive conversation. Kind regards JakobSteenberg (talk) 20:05, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kevin. You are absolutely right. My response to you was not appropriate and should have been formulated differently. For this I apologize.

The reason for the possible harsh tone is; I have dealt with genuine spammers before. The last time I reached out to one what happened was instead of accepting he or she was caught doing something in bad faith and either respond or stop, he or she simply worked harder on disseminating the links and started doing this for a new account as well resulting in much more clean up work. This should not have affected my message to you but I do hope you understand.

In regards to the links. They are inappropriate for muscle articles like transverse abdominal muscle and should be removed again. If links for exercises where to be accepted they should not be (again, it could be a really good training web site for all i know) for a for-profit Internet based company (one of millions) but for lets say some national health service or anything in that caliber. Otherwise we would end up with a list of thousand of external links on are articles. The links you inserted are in my opinion the same as if somebody added links to a single website selling Apple products on articles like iphone, macbook and so on.

Again, I hope you can see how it from my perspective looks like you where promoting a company which you had a economic state in. Looking at your contributions it would be a fair bet that you where Adam S. Veige and EMG was your one-man company (again, this would not be the first time this have happen).

As for the exercise articles you added the link to. I do not edit these articles but I am almost certain that the links are inappropriate here as well and should be removed.

Again, I apologize for the tone in my previously responds and will keep your suggestion in mind the next time I stumble upon a possible spammer. Thanks for taking the time to respond and I do not hope that I have not discouraged you to keep editing Wikipedia. JakobSteenberg (talk) 08:41, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]