User talk:Andycrossley

February 2018[edit]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Sacramento Kings. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 20:31, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Springfield Indians, you may be blocked from editing. General Ization ^Talk 20:32, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Seriously, stop adding links to your site!!!! You've been doing this for years. It is not at all appropriate and will result in you being indefinitely blocked and the site but on the global links blacklist, meaning it could never be used even as a reference. Cut it out and remove the links you've added. oknazevad (talk) 21:18, 18 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Am in process of deleting all offending links. Sorry for misunderstanding the guidelines.Andycrossley (talk) 20:06, 21 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps you would also remove the links you placed as long ago as 2012 using your other account, Amcrossley (talk · contribs). General Ization ^Talk 13:10, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry - to clarify... those ARE the links I am removing while logged in as Amcrossley. I think I just signed my previous message on this page incorrectly. I expect to have everything deleted by tomorrow at latest. I am not attempting to leaving any spammy material on here by being shady with multiple log-ins, etc. Honestly trying to make things right. AmcrossleyAmcrossley (talk) 17:30, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 17:43, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that all of the offending self-referential links have now been removed dating back to 2012. Amcrossley (talk) 21:52, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that there remain 173 or so links to the Web site in question. E.g., in List of defunct Texas sports teams, to which a link to the Web site was added on November 21, 2017, using IP 108.218.165.15. Here is a list of the remaining links. Not all will need to be removed. Though I'm not sure the site is considered a reliable source, it can be used as supplemental source in citing specific content, just not as an external link in the External links section. General Ization ^Talk 22:37, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like a number of those links (perhaps all) weren't added by you, so it wouldn't be appropriate to ask you to remove them. General Ization ^Talk 22:56, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for sending the list. I deleted another dozen or so offending links that I missed in my first pass. The large majority of the list are citations created by others.Andycrossley (talk) 04:08, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

While I have no opinion on the matter, some have been re-added by @Jeff in CA: after your removal. Yosemiter (talk) 04:21, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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