User talk:SoftwareKnowHow
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[edit]Welcome!
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P. D. Cook Talk to me! 00:34, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
April 2011
[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at Talk:K3b, is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. P. D. Cook Talk to me! 00:35, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Talk:Cluster analysis 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 constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. P. D. Cook Talk to me! 00:35, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:Java Database Connectivity. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. P. D. Cook Talk to me! 00:36, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:KFC/Archive 4 with this edit. 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. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. SeaphotoTalk 00:43, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
This is your last warning; the next time you harm Wikipedia, as you did at Talk:KFC/Archive 4 with this edit, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. 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. SeaphotoTalk 00:44, 14 April 2011 (UTC)
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{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.