User talk:Algabatz

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Hello, Algabatz, 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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July 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Sheaffer 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 for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.Template:Do not delete Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 23:03, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Quink. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Martin451 (talk) 23:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links, as you did with this edit to George Safford Parker. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Martin451 (talk) 23:09, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if I'm doing this right. George Parker was the founder of the Parker Pen company and is featured over and over on my site. quink was manufactured by the same company. I can agree about the Sheaffer link, I just thought people interested in pens wanted links to pen information. Please let me know what You think. /Algabatz

The link does not seem to satisfy our external links policy. If you think that it does, you should discuss the matter on the relevant articles' talk pages. You should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent. The many articles that you have added it to make it appear that your main intention is to advertise your site. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 23:25, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will add that it looks like you have a nice site. I do wish you continued success with it. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 23:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh, while I'm glad that you decided to contribute content to an article, please desist in adding your link to articles. I woke up this morning to notice that your site was linked in Parker Pen Company three times (once as a reference and twice as an external link). Again, you should not link to a site that you own or are affiliated with. What you are doing is spamming. I didn't report it this time since you did to contribute content for once instead of bare links; however, you currently have 42 article edits. All but 1 of them was to add your link to an article or to tweak the link. You previously described the link as an "unofficial fansite". WP:FANSITE says that these should be avoided. Please stop spamming your link or you will likely be blocked from editing. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 13:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Parker Vacumatic. Martin451 (talk) 23:18, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Alex. Please take the time to read this. Well as You might have seen I have had a long conversation with Martin. I was initially unaware of the fact that You weren't supposed to add external links to Wikipedia. I also apologised for not reading the rules before I started adding links to my site. With a wave of a wand every link to my site was removed from wikipedia. Let me explain. My site has an incredible lot of information about the Parker pen company and their producs. It is truly a site for fountain pen nerds. Martin suggested that, instead of directing Wikipedia readers to my site, I should post the information on Wikipedia. Which I initially did. But if You read any of the chapters on my site You will realise that for 90% of the Wikipedia visitors that amount of information would be a tremendous overkill, simply too much information. However, for the additional 10% the information would probably be most valuable. I am just a collector, I don't make money off my site, my only satisfaction is that I know that my work helps collectors. I find lots of links on Wikipedia to commercial sites that doesn't provide an ounce of information, other than which modern pens they currently have for sale. I just can not understand why I can't have a link to my site. I agree that posting a link on the Sheaffer page was widening the range of interest too far, but as for the George S Parker page, The Parker Pen Company page and for each of the Parker pen sub-pages, such as Duofold, Vacumatic etc, there is a clear straight line in the endevour to freely provide information to others, in the very spirit of Wikipedia. I realise that You have an incredible amount of postings to monitor, but I'm hoping that You might see my point. Kind regards, Tony aka Algabatz

Your edits to talk pages

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Your recent edits

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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 and potentially penalized by search engines. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf^(talk) 22:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]