User talk:Miklebe

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February 2009

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 Cream ale 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. E Wing (talk) 14:45, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to American-style lager. 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 the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. 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. E Wing (talk) 14:46, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to American pale ale. 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. E Wing (talk) 14:46, 9 February 2009 (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 for the following reason: too close to User:Mikebe, who edits the same articles. 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. Editor437 (talk) 14:55, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please respond to these messages. In particular, your choice of username seems very unusual, given that another user with a very similar name has previously been involved in a dispute regarding these links. Feel free to comment here or at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Miklebe impersonating User:Mikebe, but please do so as soon as you are able. – Luna Santin (talk) 10:59, 12 February 2009 (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 Flanders red ale, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. E Wing (talk) 11:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've blocked you for mass-spamming of links and also for appearing to impersonate another user for purposes of harassment. If you respond to Luna's request to comment on this (you will need to do so on this page) then either Luna or myself will review this block in light of the responses you give. ➨ ❝ЯEDVERS❞ dedicated to making a happy man very old 11:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]