User talk:Millionstars

Welcome!

Hello, Millionstars, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Spam warning

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. 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. Katr67 (talk) 21:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Millionstars,

You've hit upon a very sensitive and touchy area of Wikipedia. It's quite common for marketers (marketeers?) to add external links to numerous articles in an effort to improve their SEO ranking and/or attempt to promote themselves with pure advertising (see WP:ADVERT and WP:SPAM). External links are generally considered noise—or evil, depending on the editor—but are tolerated if:

The target website isn't primarily trying to sell something—and not very blatantly
It provides useful content associated specifically to the article
The link complements the article—doesn't repeat it, and adds value to it
The editor adding the link targeted a very small number of articles
The link adder heeds feedback from editors rejects the link

As a rule of thumb, most editors consider adding a link to more than 3 to 5 successive articles as spamming. In my experience, that rule works quite well. You've innocently(?) violated the last two points. By reverting the removal of your links before engaging in discussion, many will likely view your actions as pushy. —EncMstr (talk) 14:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above description covers most of it:

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.

Try to engage in discussion, and achieve consensus before adding the links again. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:00, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

ushospitalfinder.com: Linksearch en (insource) - meta - de - fr - simple - wikt:en - wikt:fr • Spamcheck • MER-C X-wiki • gs • Reports: Links on en - COIBot - COIBot-Local • Discussions: tracked - advanced - RSN • COIBot-Link, Local, & XWiki Reports - Wikipedia: en - fr - de • Google: search • meta • Domain: domaintools • AboutUs.com

For further discussion, please join Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Spam#Hospital_search_site_spammer, where your link and your edits are under discussion. I'd like to advise you that further abuse may also lead to blacklisting of the link, which has as a result that the link can not be used on this wikipedia at all, however useful the link may be. I hope this explains. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:19, 5 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]