User talk:Contemporary-American-Design

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September 2018[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 Joe Doucet has been reverted.
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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did to Joe Doucet. While objective prose about beliefs, organisations, people, products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for soapboxing, advertising or promotion. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 07:09, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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December 2018[edit]

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Joe Doucet, you may be blocked from editing. Theroadislong (talk) 20:27, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Adding References[edit]

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I am attempting to add references to joe Doucet but I seem to be violating some policy. Could anyone please let me know what I am doing wrong so that I may fix the issue? Here is the text in question. Thanks so much for your help.

[spam removed]

Contemporary-American-Design (talk) 21:18, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You said in the edit summary that those were "Reliable secondary sources", but many of them are not. #1 is a broken link. #2 is Wikipedia, which isn't a reliable source. #3 is at best an opinion piece, and one for which Forbes explicitly disavows all responsibility ("Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own."). It also doesn't say what you cite it for. #6 is Doucet's own website. And so on. There were also concerns that your edits unduly promoted Doucet. Huon (talk) 00:14, 15 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest[edit]

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. – Athaenara ✉ 22:31, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked[edit]

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose.

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– Athaenara ✉ 22:31, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]