User talk:Sharon Hilary

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Hello, Sharon Hilary, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.

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Sharon Hilary, good luck, and have fun. — JJMC89 (T·C) 01:46, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

April 2018

This is your only warning; if you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Kirbanzo (talk) 16:58, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

You have been indefinitely blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may place {{unblock}} on your user talk page to have the block reviewed. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 17:27, 27 April 2018 (UTC)

I was going to give you a final warning and message and block you if you continued to add these links, but ... here we are now. The links you added are very useful as *references* – I for one used the link you added to the Joan Armatrading page for exactly that purpose. However, they're far too brief to be used as external links, and the way you're adding them is considered spamming. If you have a conflict of interest related to Guitar Girl Magazine, as I strongly suspect you do, it would've been much more useful to write messages on the talk pages of the articles noting your link ... but only if you could write about information contained in the linked page that would be useful for the article. Graham87 17:48, 27 April 2018 (UTC)