User talk:Moggsmallorca

Welcome!

Hello, Moggsmallorca, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Regarding your edits to Mallorca pages

Thank you for experimenting with Wikipedia. Please refrain from adding promotional websites to Wikipedia, as you did with your contributions to Majorca, Palma Nova and Magaluf – it has been reverted or removed. Please read the external links guidelines if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopaedia. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. → friedfish 15:06, 21 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. -- Joanne B 16:48, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Palma Nova. 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. Jonobennett (talk) 21:50, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion of Calvia Quiz League

A tag has been placed on Calvia Quiz League requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a club, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guidelines for people and for organizations.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the article or have a copy emailed to you. FlyingToaster 23:36, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Quiz league, you will be blocked from editing. FlyingToaster 23:38, 8 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 Calvià, 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. FlyingToaster 23:41, 8 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note with respect to Calvia Quiz League. I'll quote from a note that a reviewing editor left you above: "the article appears to be about a club, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia." I researched the linked article at Quiz league and determined that, to the best of my knowledge, there is no professional or international level of inter-league competition, and that led me to believe that it was not possible for a particular club to be competing at that highest level; that the notability of the club must of necessity be limited to Majorca and more or less to the 100 people which the article notes are participants. Another factor in my decision was the fact that although you mentioned a large number of sponsors (thereby giving the article the appearance of advertising, there were no independent arm's-length third-party references or sources that testified as to the specific notability of this league. However, after you asked the question, to be fair, I noted a similar article for a league in London which, although larger, seemed to be essentially the same. Therefore, to assist you as best I am able, I'm going to return the deleted content, not to the article mainspace, but to a "sandbox" page for you at User:Moggsmallorca/Sandbox, where you can work on it and see if you can add material that will let it meet the notability and reliable sources policies listed above. I trust this is satisfactory; let me know if I can be of further assistance. Accounting4Taste:talk 23:06, 9 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your note. All I can suggest is that you examine the article at The Quiz League of London and see if you can follow that format. Speaking entirely personally, it doesn't seem to me as though either article is sufficiently notable to be in Wikipedia, for the reasons I've given immediately above. However, also as I said above, "there were no independent arm's-length third-party references or sources that testified as to the specific notability of this league." If you could find references in newspapers and/or magazines that express interest in this league, that's what I would specifically recommend adding. Read the reliable sources policy and see if you can find references that meet it. I hope this helps you. Please be aware that I'm not the only editor who will ever look at this and, if you return it to "mainspace" out of your sandbox page, you will have to face the scrutiny of other editors -- if I were you, I'd try to make it as strong as possible before going forward. Accounting4Taste:talk 17:14, 10 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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