User talk:Vikingspirit
You are welcome to look into Freemasons International Directory - FID at http://masons.start4all.com. If you have any inputs or comments I will appreciate it
Roald Atle Furre Bergen-Norway
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November 2009
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Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. MuZemike 19:04, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
May 2010
[edit]Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Type 212 submarine has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.pbase.com/vikingspirit/ubootsubmarine.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 06:08, 1 May 2010 (UTC)