User talk:MasterRecs

October 2008

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Del Amitri. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jonobennett (talk) 19:07, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Iggy Pop, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. 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. Knippschild (talk) 19:27, 17 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just saw these two notes regarding my posting of links. I do not understand your comments since Wikipedia:

(1) routinely uses information from my website; (2) allows All Music Group, IMDB and other sites to post on as many pages as they wish--clearly they are commeercial sites; (3) the links I am posting are to specific pages with information that is often unique.

I am not attempting to "spam" Wikipedia. My site is about A&M Records artists. There were 2400 of them. I read the Wiki spam page and do not feel that I am in violation of your rules.

See WP:LINKSTOAVOID:

5 Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services, (...)

6 Links to sites that require payment or registration to view the relevant content, (...)

If i look for Brenda Russell i see some -copyrighted- pictures of disccovers and i can purchase information about that artist and others. This is not in line with Wikipedia policy. If i see the amount of links you have placed in about 4 hours time, this is spamming. EdBever (talk) 11:13, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just to add to this, the guidelines on external links clearly state:

"You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked." -- the links you've post are in direct contravention of this. The links you see to IMDB, etc. weren't posted there by anyone affiliated with those organisations, but by other Wikipedians. Jonobennett (talk) 16:24, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your claims of Copyvio

I'm sorry to hear you believe your copyright content is being used without your permission in Wikipedia. This is something that's taken very seriously, and will be dealt with if you follow the correct procedure: You can contact info-en-c@wikimedia.org with an informal request; please cite the exact URL, and provide enough information to substantiate your claim of copyright ownership. Be aware that correspondence is answered by a small number of volunteers, and an immediate reply may not be possible.

Jonobennett (talk) 16:10, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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