User talk:IIEAMIKE

Welcome

Hello, IIEAMIKE, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you have edited appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been reverted for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of deletion, you might like to draft your article before submission, then get me or any other editor to proofread it. To start creating a draft article, just click your user name at the top of the screen when you are logged in, and edit that page as you would any other. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

The one firm rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that if more than one person is using this account to edit, then unfortunately it will be blocked from editing.

If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} on your user page, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! NJA (t/c) 17:42, 21 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

February 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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 to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 22:22, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 22:22, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, IIEAMIKE. For future discussion, this page is the best place to respond. There is no "submitting it to you guys for proof-reading first"-type process as you mentioned in your message to me, I thank you for being bold and making the changes you thought were good and necessary. Nonetheless, when I have seen similar contributions in the past, such as yours indicated, when there is a new account, whose single purpose is to add external links to articles, that instantly raises a red flag, and which is why I reverted. The sheer number caused me to issue a rather strict warning, which, looking back, now seems a bit harsh for a new user such as you.

However, before I did the reverts, I tested the article Joe Higgins, and the external link you posted was [1]. All on the link I see is a link to a youtube video. I then tested Liz McManus, going to [2]. Again, a single video, but now with a descriptive caption.

Wikipedia's external links content guidelines are listed at Wikipedia:External links. Based on the observations above, I reverted because of WP:ELNO #4, "Links mainly intended to promote a website," as all of these links appear to be doing- promoting iiea.com.

Take a good look at WP:ELYES, the policy on what should be linked, and use your judgement to consider which links should be re-added, but make sure you keep in mind WP:ELNO (Links normally to be avoided). Only add if the iiea has a wealth of information of videos/interviews/transcripts, not just a single link to a YouTube video and a description, as I saw in my two examples listed above.

Please leave a message on User talk:Spencer if you have any questions, and thanks for your concerns, Spencer^{T♦Nominate!} 03:42, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]