User talk:Calvin Mclain

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Hello, Calvin Mclain, and 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 {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking

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April 2012[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 PlayStation has been reverted.
Your edit here to PlayStation was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://sonygamersunlimited.blogspot.com) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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) 05:41, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Львівське (говорити) 06:53, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Soviet Union national ice hockey team. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Denniss (talk) 09:41, 15 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, as you did at Cataclysm, you will be blocked from editing without further notice.
Your edits have been automatically marked as vandalism and have been automatically reverted. The following is the log entry regarding this vandalism: Cataclysm was changed by Calvin Mclain (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.865894 on 2012-04-16T06:08:13+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 06:08, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In response to your feedback[edit]

Hi Calvin.... It might be that the links are relevant but the thing is that Wikipedia is not designed to hold a lot of external links to other places. The goal is to take information from reliable sources and build articles. The information needs to be here.

Adding links to articles - especially commercial or to websites supporting an organization or person - is generally not allowed. You can add 'external links' at the bottom of articles if it's appropriate. Take a look at this page for more information about adding external links. I think it's clear that your intentions are good, but you want to be sure that you stay within Wikipedia's guidelines. You might find this page useful as you're starting out.

If there's anything I can do to help, please feel free to let me know. Just click "Talk" after my name and leave me a message. Good luck!

Wikipelli ^Talk 13:34, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]