User talk:Kosharitv

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Contents 1 Your recent edits 2 Flgnews.com 2.1 Links normally to be avoided 2.2 Advertising and conflicts of interest

[edit] Your recent edits

Please stop adding commercial material to Wikipedia. It is considered spam, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. --Nebular110 17:48, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Flgnews.com

I've reverted your addition of flgnews.com to the media section of the Flagstaff, Arizona article. Please do not add it back. Wikipedia is not a site to promote your own websites. Please review WP:NOT. This is now your second warning. Continue to violate these rules and your account will be banned from posting. Dr. Cash 23:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

You obviously have not read WP:NOT, so I have reverted your blog site again on the Flagstaff, Arizona article. You may also want to read Wikipedia's guidelines regarding adding external links to articles, specifically the sections regarding conflicts of interest, adding links to your own sites, and advertising. Continue to keep adding this here and you will be banned. Dr. Cash 20:01, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Since you apparently don't want to waste your precious time actually clicking on and reading wikipedia's various policies, I'll quote from them here:

[edit] Links normally to be avoided

Except for a link to a page that is the subject of the article or an official page of the article subject—and not prohibited by restrictions on linking—one should avoid:

1. Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article.
2. Any site that misleads the reader by use of factually inaccurate material or unverifiable research. See Reliable sources.
3. Links mainly intended to promote a website.
4. Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services. For example, instead of linking to a commercial bookstore site, use the "ISBN" linking format, giving readers an opportunity to search a wide variety of free and non-free book sources.
5. Links to sites with objectionable amounts of advertising.
6. Links to sites that require payment or registration to view the relevant content.
7. Sites that are inaccessible to a substantial number of users, such as sites that only work with a specific browser.
8. Direct links to documents that require external applications (such as Flash or Java) to view the relevant content, unless the article is about such rich media. If you do link to such material make a note of what application is required.
9. Links to search engine results pages.
10. Links to social networking sites (such as MySpace), discussion forums or USENET.
11. Links to blogs and personal webpages, except those written by a recognized authority.
12. Links to open wikis, except those with a substantial history of stability and a substantial number of editors.
13. Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: it should be a simple exercise to show how the link is directly and symmetrically related to the article's subject. This means that there is both a relation from the website to the subject of the article, and a relation from the subject of the article to the website. For example, the officially sanctioned online site of a rock band has a direct and symmetric relationship to that rock band, and thus should be linked from the rock band's Wikipedia article. An alternative site run by fans is not symmetrically related to the rock band, as the rock band has only indirect connections with that site.

[edit] Advertising and conflicts of interest

Main articles: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Spam

Due to the rising profile of Wikipedia and the amount of extra traffic it can bring a site, there is a great temptation to use Wikipedia to advertise or promote links. This includes both commercial and non-commercial sites. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interests guidelines.

A few parties now appear to have a spambot capable of spamming wikis from several different wiki engines, analogous to the submitter scripts for guestbooks and blogs. If you see a bot inserting external links, please consider checking the other language wikis to see if the attack is widespread. If it is, please contact a sysop on the meta-wiki; they can put in a Wikimedia-wide text filter. Sysops should block unauthorised bots on sight.