User talk:RedWitch

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses Nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. IrishGuy ^talk 00:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. Since Wikipedia uses Nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. IrishGuy ^talk 00:53, 3 February 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. IrishGuy ^talk 01:04, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dear IrishGuy, Please explain how linking to a relevant article is spamming. Please also explain why the link 'Talk' next to your name takes me to your previous discussion and does not provide any option for messaging you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RedWitch (talk • contribs)

You are adding links to a blog which is to be avoided. See WP:EL. Beyond that, you are linking to your own blog which is definitely to be avoided. Please stop spamming Wikipedia. Please stop removing valid warnings. IrishGuy ^talk 01:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The talk link in my signature takes you to my most current talk page. It doesn't take you to an archived discussion. IrishGuy ^talk 01:13, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In your determination to remove links you have removed links from entries I wrote from scratch; you have removed links that provide information both relevant and which provide information not available elsewhere. You have also removed links sequentially at such a rate that it seems unlikely that you have checked the content of these pages. While blog entries are normally to be avoided, they are not prohibited. I would ask you to read the entries and decide whether each is 'a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included'. If you do not have time to do so I would be obliged if you would 'let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether' to retain these linnks without threatening to have me blocked. If/when you do examine these pages you will see that I have consistently cited Wikipedia entries, creating them from scratch where necessary, adding and editing in other instances and have not linked to pages on my blog unless relevant.

PS: it should be clear from the complete absence of advertising on my blog that I am not interested in search engine rankings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RedWitch (talk • contribs)

The warnings continued because you continued adding links to your own website. That is spam and a conflict of interest. IrishGuy ^talk 01:30, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I continued because I did not know any other way of communicating except as a note to a change; as for the conflict of interest. I have read and quoted (above) from the relevant section of the COI page: even with a COI a link is to be retained if it is 'relevant and informative'. This is to be judged by a 'neutral and independent Wikipedia editor'. Are you 'neutral and independent'? — Preceding unsigned comment added by RedWitch (talk • contribs)

I'm not sure how I wouldn't be independent as it isn't my blog. The WP:COI guidelines state: Conflict of interest often presents itself in the form of self-promotion, including advertising links, personal website links in articles, personal or semi-personal photos, or any other material that appears to promote the private or commercial interests of the editor adding the material, or of his associates. This is exactly what you repeatedly did. I, another neutral and independent editor, removed those links. If you want yet another editor to look at your blog and tell you it is inappropriate for you to add links to it, by all means...ask another editor. IrishGuy ^talk 01:47, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]