User talk:ChristopherCruise

Welcome[edit]

Hello, ChristopherCruise! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking

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Spamming?[edit]

Do you work for Voice of America? You seem to be doing nothing more than putting links to their site everywhere you go. Dream Focus 19:06, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

July 2011[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Coal mining 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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 constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Dawn Bard (talk) 20:43, 4 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please see[edit]

Please join the discussion at Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard#Voice_of_America.27s_Special_English_service_links. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:16, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Simple English Wikipedia[edit]

Hi Christopher, In the discussion mentioned above, another editor suggested that the links you've been adding here would probably be of some real value at the Simple English Wikipedia. Cheers, Dawn Bard (talk) 13:40, 12 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]