User talk:Cooltunes

Welcome[edit]

Welcome

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see

If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write {{helpme}} below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia.

I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! TimTay (talk) 22:31, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

April 2008[edit]

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Glastonbury, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. You have added the same spam link four times to the Glastonbury article. Please stop. TimTay (talk) 14:04, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for repeated abuse of editing privileges. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below. James086^{Talk | Email} 14:42, 4 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{{unblock|Have no intention to be a spammer! and I admit that as a newbie it took me a while to see that I had messages that informed me that my repeated adding of a link, that I thought to be in accordance with Wikipedia guidlines, was deemed to be spamming! I am still trying to understand why this is. I am therefore asking to be unblocked on the grounds that I did not understand why my link was constantly disappearing so kept resubmitting it and now I understand the reason, I will obviously not be resubmitting the link until I have made sure that it is in accordance with the rules of Wikipedia...}}

I've contacted the blocking admin to review your request. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 13:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s):

It seems you were overwhelmed by the swift blocking of your account. I hope this hasn't deterred you from contributing further. I apologise for what may have been too much haste on my part. If you have any questions feel free to ask (although I will be unavailable for the next ~10 hours so the Help Desk would be quicker).

Request handled by: James086^{Talk | Email} 14:02, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just FYI, you didn't miss anything. The warning was issued after the last time you added the link, not before it. Mango juice^talk 14:03, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spam links[edit]

Welcome back! This maybe a good point to discuss spam links - the reason you were banned temporarily.

A good place to start is by reading Wikipedia:External links, which gives clear guidance on what is and is not acceptable in the External Links section of a page. Of specific interest should be the section headed "Advertising and conflicts of interest". I don't know if you have any connection with the Avalon Connections website, but by adding the same link four times it raised a suspicion that you might be connected and therefore have a conflict of interest. Furthermore the site seems to be a spam site. It has links to a number of commercial organisations in the town of Glastonbury - restaurants, local business, accommodation. Wikipedia is not here to promote other sites. External links should be there to add value and understanding to the article. Avalon Connections, as a collection of links, adds no value. An acceptable way to provide links to sites relating to a town is to provide a pointer to the town's specific category in DMOZ - as is already present in the Glastonbury article.

I hope you decide to stick around and provide content to the Glastonbury article and others in the local area. You might want to take a look at WikiProject Somerset, which was setup to lift the quality of articles about Somerset. We would love to have you as a contributing member.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask. --TimTay (talk) 14:51, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Might be useful to explain why I don't think two other external links in the Glastonbury article are not spam. Virtual Glastonbury, although associated with Avalon Connections isn't blatantly linked to other sites, is not commercial or overtly trying to make money, it is not setting out to promote any other websites but instead contains a large amount of content (mostly photos) which add value to the reader trying to understand Glastonbury. Welcome to Glastonbury, while a little too "tree hugger" for my personal taste, again is non-commercial, is not a collection of links and contains some good content describing features of the town. Another Wikipedia editor might argue differently about the value of both, but I suspect all would come down against Avalon Connections. --TimTay (talk) 15:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]