User talk:H6yidpme

May 2023

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Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 13:22, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at Arne Jacobsen, you may be blocked from editing. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. DreamRimmer (talk) 13:34, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Louis Kahn. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. DreamRimmer (talk) 13:35, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

• I don't know why DreamRimmer described the links you have been adding as "spam", which doesn't seem to me tobe appropriate, but please don't continue to add to Google maps links of the kind you have been adding to articles. In fact it will be best if you don't add any links until you have enough experience of contributing to Wikipedia to know what kinds of links are suitable and what kinds aren't. JBW (talk) 13:50, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

  @JBW, continuously submitting such links is typically referred to as spamming. DreamRimmer (talk) 13:57, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

  My objective was also to revert it in good faith, but it was happening repeatedly, so it was important to warn him so that he could be aware of the policies related to the external links through the URL provided in this message. DreamRimmer (talk) 14:09, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer: Yes, a fairly common use of the word "spamming" is "repeatedly posting the same thing which the person using the word'spam' thinks shouldn't be posted", but the relevant criterion is not whether it is commonly (or "typically") called that, but whether using that word will helpfully convey to an inexperienced editor what the problem is. It is very unclear to me that it will, for several reasons, including the fact that another, and I think more common, use of "spam" is material posted for the purpose of promotion where it is unwanted. I see no reason at all to think that H6yidpme was trying to promote anything: their editing looked to me like perfectly good faith attempts to help readers of Wikipedia to find further relevant information via Google. The way it was done was inappropriate, but it is much more helpful to try to explain to a good faith new editor what aspect of their editing is considered inappropriate, so that they can avoid making the same mistake again, than to just call it "spam" without explaining why. JBW (talk) 21:12, 21 May 2023 (UTC)