User talk:Tespun

External links

Hello. Are you affiliated with ConcertAttack.com? Please be cautious about adding a large number of external links to Wikipedia, as some editors may see it as spamming behaviour. Thanks. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 20:36, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your reply, Jason. Yes, in fact it generally is considered linkspamming, and that is because of the issue of conflict of interest; I don't mean to pass any sort of judgment on how useful your site might be as a resource for readers. If you adhere to our COI guidelines, you can add a note about your site to article talk pages (please say that you are affiliated with the site when you do so), and then the regular editors of those pages can decide if they want to add the external link. I'll add our standard "COI warning" template below, since it includes some helpful links:

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);
and you must always:
avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 21:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Second warning

Jason, you are continuing to spam Wikipedia with external links. Here is another standard warning template:

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to The Police. 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 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 10:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

May 2008

You have been temporarily blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. ¤~Persian Poet Gal ^(talk) 04:48, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]