User talk:Wim Schaap

March 2024[edit]

Please stop. If you continue to add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did at Mobile virtual network operator, you may be blocked from editing. 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. Count Count (talk) 11:39, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you insert a spam link, as you did at Mobile virtual network operator. 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. Count Count (talk) 12:10, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Wim Schaap. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for article subjects for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Count Count (talk) 11:40, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

March 2024[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Ad Orientem (talk) 14:35, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I do not understand what I did wrong. I just change a dead link (website does not exist anymore) to another one. The one I linked to in NOT a commercial side but is only providing information. The link I corrected used to have the same information. Why is this seen as SPAM ?? Wim Schaap (talk) 16:27, 18 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Some kind of reply would be nice... I was just trying to help. Wim Schaap (talk) 13:34, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]