User talk:Benjh40

Hello, Benjh40! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra T C 00:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply] Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Hello Geologyguy,
Re: external link Alaska History Timeline
Subject link has been deleted. I am new to Wikipedia so excuse me if I did not follow the correct procedure related to add external links. I came up to the idea to add history timelines to the external section, after I found out that someone added a while ago my Nebraska history timeline link to the Omaha City NE, Wikipedia page. So far the link has not been deleted? After reading your message I have been checking the guidelines, in my opinion the only valid reason to delete the Alaska History Timeline is the presence of advertising, which I removed in the meantime. After adding similar info to the California Wikipedia page, I was requested to remove the advertising, which I also did immediately, but there was no deletion of the CA History Timeline, a correct and reasonable approach. I feel that the semi-educative Alaska History Timeline external link contributes positively to the Alaska page. However prior to reinsert the link, I look forward to your comments.
Regards --Benjh40 (talk) 18:29, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thanks for your thoughtful note. Adding essentially the same link, from the same site, to 18 pages, is certainly spammy - one should add content, not links; you have not really added anything at all to the encyclopedia. In my opinion, much of the information in the timelines is already in the articles, or could readily be, so they really add little or nothing to the articles. I would encourage you to find whatever information may lie in the timelines that is not yet in the articles, and then add that information in your own words to the appropriate parts of the articles. Also, since you are clearly associated with the site, please see WP:COI. Again, add content, not links. Hope this helps. Cheers Geologyguy (talk) 18:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Alaska 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. Geologyguy (talk) 14:19, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Louisiana, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you.

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Louisiana, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia.

Please stop adding the links, the link is not directly appropriate on e.g. Louisiana, it would be better on History of Louisiana (if that page exists). Also, we are writing an encyclopedia here, not a linkfarm, and you seem to have a conflict of interest. Could you please contact an appropriate wikiproject (see Wikipedia:WikiProject to find one), and discuss your edits there first before continuing. Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 23:11, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have been temporarily blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 00:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,
Considering the reactions from professional Wikipedians for adding my history timelines to the WE I will not continue to 'participate' this way. I do have full understanding for your Spam policy, however I do not agree with your Conflict of Interest point of view, the timeline topics are a compilation/resumé of web and/or print public access information. I believe that the majority of the information in the WP is compiled from existing sources, sources which are not always mentioned.
Please note that I cannot be kept responsible if one of my history timelines (complete or partly) is added to a WP article by third parties without my knowledge.
I may come back to WP (after the blocking period?)to add a new article or to add missing or additional information to complete an article, after carefully checking the WP guidelines, policy and requirements. Regards,
--Benjh40 (talk) 15:14, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked for a period of 1 week from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, 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.

You have been blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may place {{unblock}} on your user talk page to have the block reviewed. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:32, 4 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]