User talk:Jmurphy86
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September 2009[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively 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 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. DreamGuy (talk) 21:06, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
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COI[edit]
You said on my talk page that you read the spam and COI rules. Are you claiming then that you have no connection with this book? All of your edits to Wikipedia have been to promote it. That suggests a COI.
The book is published by CreateSpace, which is basically a vanity press. Anyone can pay money to get basically any book they want published through them. Wikipedia is not here to list every book that exists on a topic in multiple articles, we only list notable ones. The book would seem to fail those standards at this time. You can't use Wikipedia in the hope that it becomes famous (and, not so incidentally, makes a lot of money), it has to already be famous (or at least well documented in a nontrivial way by multiple important and reliable sources) before it gets mentioned here. DreamGuy (talk) 19:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)