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Please see my comments at Talk:East Tilbury about your recent edits of the East Tilbury article. Rjm at sleepers (talk) 09:04, 8 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Caomhin,

With regards to your edits of the Wiki for The Palace Theatre Westcliff, and your removal of links to our site.You say "The domain in question is implicated in spamming of Wikipedia" can I point you here link and the discussion here link in the light of this I hope you will stop editing the links.

Thanks Chris Joker7 (talk) 13:42, 27 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

Hi,

This edit appears to be a content issue, but you've labelled it as vandalism in the edit summary. Not only do I think it isn't vandalism, I also disagree that the link isn't pertinent to the article. Please be careful to use summaries which reflect your actions. I've restored the link in question. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:21, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd agree it's not vandalism, that was a slip of the finger and I figured not worth adding to the churn, but it looks to be spam Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#spam.greenoptimistic.com Caomhin (talk) 12:33, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, okay, I'm cool with removel then. Thanks for the heads-up. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Linkspam

it's a commercial site. I know nothing about your recordCanOfWorms (talk) 09:37, 11 July 2008 (UTC) Did you look at the site? It's a collection of advertising links. If it looks like spam and smells like spam, it probably is spam. Also, it's means either 'it is' or 'it has' CanOfWorms (talk) 10:47, 11 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Zend Framework

hi, im not sure on the protocol here but am wondering why you would have removed the link to digitalus cms in the list of organizations that use the zend framework. are you suggesting that we do not use the framework, or that somehow because the other projects listed are larger they are more relevant? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.69.232.19 (talk) 12:25, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Due to the number of groups/companies that use ZF it's a tricky section to keep an eye on really, however to keep the section within sane bounds entries need to be sufficiently notable. I'm not saying it doesn't use ZF (I have a vague memory of looking into it as a point-release in fact) or that it's irrelevant, simply that if the project were notable enough for a mention it would be a wikilink to it's own article rather than an external link to the project website. In fairness my edit summary was lazy though so I can understand the confusion. If there's enough about Digitalus to justify it's own article like those on Category:Open_source_content_management_systems create away, I'd happily support a wikilink to such an article. But basically due to the risk of abuse it's not really appropriate to use external links to any/all software using ZF. Hope that helps clarify the matter, if you need any more help don't hesitate to ask. Caomhin (talk) 12:53, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the clarification. I don't believe that I could write an article due to wikipedia's (neutrality) policy, but I would warmly welcome one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.69.232.19 (talk) 01:54, 6 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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historic66.com

Can we somehow talk in private about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam/2008_Archive_May_1#http:.2F.2Fspam.historic66.com ?

I'm not sure how to give you a way to my email address without violating rules (I'm not all that much of a user of wikipedia) nor am I very comfy with putting it here and getting more spam in my inbox myself. If you go to the www.<domainname>.com/contact/ and fill that out, I'll get you my email address to be able to do this simple and direct.

I own the site, it's been out there since 1994. I'm not sure what happened with that 12.* address, but rest assured: I'm geographically far outside of the AT&T service area. Most will know I live in Europe (Belgium to be more correct).

I fight spammers since a very long time, perhaps one of them got back to me this way, I'm quite unsure what happened, nor do I understand the reaction to be honest. If you need a statement of me of some sort that I do not condone spam: no problem, running a forum makes fighting spam on that site a daily task.

Looking at some of the links to more information in that spam page there, I think it's important to point out that around that time I lost control over the route66.netvision.be name [It's not on any server I own or control anymore, that info is out of date]. route66.netvision.be is a very old URL of the site, that used to have a 301 redirect case I could not get many of those dinosaur-age links updated, even after many tries). The domain netvision.be was never mine and got picked up by somebody -before I even knew they were letting it expire- and whoever owns it now used it on a parking service to be disgust. Might be part of the confusion ...

I was prompted to look into this by a confusing private message from a member of the forum on my site, maybe that member tried to do good and did more harm than good in the end, hard to tell. I'm unsure what to make of it all.

Can we resolve this somehow? I do think the site adds value as being the sole source of both a free turn-by-turn description and the forum helping future travelers in getting out there. I don't care for many links (rel="nofollow" anyway), but I do think the world at large would benefit from a single one.

As said before I'm only a _very_ casual user of wikipedia, go slow and easy please.

I've no malicious intend whatsoever. 84.194.218.156 (talk) 22:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to post this while logged in, but it seems I got logged out inbetween, and now it doesn't want to let me log in again for trying to much (guess you need cookies turned on). 84.194.218.156 (talk) 22:54, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

anybody home ? Swa (talk) 14:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nope - I was moving :-) I'll contact you. Caomhin (talk) 15:12, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Which of these links considered spam and why?

I was surprised at the removal of these links, as I rewrote them in English for the non-Spanish speaking audience on popular request in emails and forums. Many people have looked for or asked for these tables and tools to understand motor oils. They certainly aren't advertising as I have no English speaking customers. All answer questions that I get frequently in emails from people all over the world.

SAE-ISO-AGMA conversion chart is a look across chart so people can see how motor oil, transmission oil, and industrial oil viscosities relate to each other.
Chart of API Gravity and Specific gravity is a table that shows how API Gravity is related to Specific Gravity
Online calculator for API Gravity and specific weight is a calculator for those that want specific conversion of the API table.
SAE J300 Motor Oil Viscosity Chart is the basic API J300 chart of motor oil viscosity classifications.
Graph any four oils from their data sheets is a tool where people can understand what happens to the viscosity of any four oils of their choosing at different temperatures.
Selection of the right motor oil for Corvairs and other flat tappet engines is a report on the understanding of motor oil viscosity, additive clash, myths, etc. It is the first I've written in English (by popular request) after 5 years of publishing technical papers in Spanish.

Please explain what is wrong with these, or some of these. I don't see where they fall into your spam definition. None of them, to my knowledge, have the dramatic technical errors that are on the "Motor Oil Bible" which remains in the external links.Richardlw (talk) 13:33, 15 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's linkspam - it's not hard to figure out the problem. To my recollection they violated multiple WP:EL guidelines. Caomhin (talk) 15:11, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

-- There are a lot of people interested in those conversions, and calculating the values given. They give more meaning to the subject and let the user participate and understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richardlw (talk • contribs) 23:54, 6 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why doesn't anyone answer questions or clear up these things?

I can't believe that people are quick to sensor information, yet have nothing to say in this section to clarify or discuss the points.

Please respond to the above.Richardlw (talk) 13:56, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've been offline. I'll give back my wages immediately. Caomhin (talk) 15:10, 8 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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