User talk:Algabatz

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

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July 2009[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Sheaffer 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 23:03, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to the page Quink. Such edits constitute vandalism and are reverted. Please do not continue to make unconstructive edits to pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thank you. Martin451 (talk) 23:07, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links, as you did with this edit to George Safford Parker. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Martin451 (talk) 23:09, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure if I'm doing this right. George Parker was the founder of the Parker Pen company and is featured over and over on my site. quink was manufactured by the same company. I can agree about the Sheaffer link, I just thought people interested in pens wanted links to pen information. Please let me know what You think. /Algabatz

The link does not seem to satisfy our external links policy. If you think that it does, you should discuss the matter on the relevant articles' talk pages. You should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent. The many articles that you have added it to make it appear that your main intention is to advertise your site. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 23:25, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will add that it looks like you have a nice site. I do wish you continued success with it. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 23:44, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sigh, while I'm glad that you decided to contribute content to an article, please desist in adding your link to articles. I woke up this morning to notice that your site was linked in Parker Pen Company three times (once as a reference and twice as an external link). Again, you should not link to a site that you own or are affiliated with. What you are doing is spamming. I didn't report it this time since you did to contribute content for once instead of bare links; however, you currently have 42 article edits. All but 1 of them was to add your link to an article or to tweak the link. You previously described the link as an "unofficial fansite". WP:FANSITE says that these should be avoided. Please stop spamming your link or you will likely be blocked from editing. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 13:47, 27 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Parker Vacumatic. Martin451 (talk) 23:18, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Alex. Please take the time to read this. Well as You might have seen I have had a long conversation with Martin. I was initially unaware of the fact that You weren't supposed to add external links to Wikipedia. I also apologised for not reading the rules before I started adding links to my site. With a wave of a wand every link to my site was removed from wikipedia. Let me explain. My site has an incredible lot of information about the Parker pen company and their producs. It is truly a site for fountain pen nerds. Martin suggested that, instead of directing Wikipedia readers to my site, I should post the information on Wikipedia. Which I initially did. But if You read any of the chapters on my site You will realise that for 90% of the Wikipedia visitors that amount of information would be a tremendous overkill, simply too much information. However, for the additional 10% the information would probably be most valuable. I am just a collector, I don't make money off my site, my only satisfaction is that I know that my work helps collectors. I find lots of links on Wikipedia to commercial sites that doesn't provide an ounce of information, other than which modern pens they currently have for sale. I just can not understand why I can't have a link to my site. I agree that posting a link on the Sheaffer page was widening the range of interest too far, but as for the George S Parker page, The Parker Pen Company page and for each of the Parker pen sub-pages, such as Duofold, Vacumatic etc, there is a clear straight line in the endevour to freely provide information to others, in the very spirit of Wikipedia. I realise that You have an incredible amount of postings to monitor, but I'm hoping that You might see my point. Kind regards, Tony aka Algabatz (talk) 11:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)Algabatz[reply]

Your edits to talk pages[edit]

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Your recent edits[edit]

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You have been temporarily blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy 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 and potentially penalized by search engines. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text {{unblock|Your reason here}} below, but you should read our guide to appealing blocks first. Alexf^(talk) 22:15, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Alex. Please take the time to read this. Well as You might have seen I have had a long conversation with Martin. I was initially unaware of the fact that You weren't supposed to add external links to Wikipedia. I also apologised for not reading the rules before I started adding links to my site. With a wave of a wand every link to my site was removed from wikipedia. Let me explain. My site has an incredible lot of information about the Parker pen company and their producs. It is truly a site for fountain pen nerds. Martin suggested that, instead of directing Wikipedia readers to my site, I should post the information on Wikipedia. Which I initially did. But if You read any of the chapters on my site You will realise that for 90% of the Wikipedia visitors that amount of information would be a tremendous overkill, simply too much information. However, for the additional 10% the information would probably be most valuable. I am just a collector, I don't make money off my site, my only satisfaction is that I know that my work helps collectors. I find lots of links on Wikipedia to commercial sites that doesn't provide an ounce of information, other than which modern pens they currently have for sale. I just can not understand why I can't have a link to my site. I agree that posting a link on the Sheaffer page was widening the range of interest too far, but as for the George S Parker page, The Parker Pen Company page and for each of the Parker pen sub-pages, such as Duofold, Vacumatic etc, there is a clear straight line in the endevour to freely provide information to others, in the very spirit of Wikipedia. I realise that You have an incredible amount of postings to monitor, but I'm hoping that You might see my point. Kind regards, Tony aka Algabatz (talk) 11:19, 30 July 2009 (UTC)Algabatz[reply]

You obviously have a conflict of interest here. You have been asked not to link to your site, and, instead, discuss it on the article's talk page. Despite that, you have continued to link it yourself. Up until now, all you have really done is WP:SPAM. If your only goal here is to link to your site, then Wikipedia is better off without you. If, instead, you start using your knowledge to help build articles, then you'll be welcomed and appeciated. If you see other links that don't satisfy our external links policy, feel free to remove them or point them out on the article's talk page. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 14:50, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So Your point is that I don't have a point regarding the information overkill?

Algabatz (talk) 17:57, 30 July 2009 (UTC)algabatz[reply]

I don't see how. If the content can be reliably sourced, then there should be a place that we can put it. The main problem that we'd have with too much sourced information would be article size. However, let's say that you wanted to insert the history of the Duofold. If you put it all into the article and the article gets too big, then it could be split into a new article, such as History of the Duofold. We have loads of information on many, many topics. If you look at our science articles, such as Quantum mechanics, you'll see that we go in-depth about the subject via that article and many sub-articles. While most readers won't understand much of it and may be overkill for them, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't cover it. If the readers don't want to read it, they aren't forced to.

However, (I was slow to catch it last time) your webpage does not have the appropriate license to be used here. It would have to be licensed by GDFL and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. I'll admit, I'm not the utmost expert on this, but, unless it fits under this license, it is a copyright violation. So, we cannot accept copy & pastes from it. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 18:22, 30 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

February 2011[edit]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Parker Vacumatic. 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. Apparition¹¹ ^Complaints/Mistakes 18:48, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Managing a conflict of interest[edit]

Hello, Algabatz. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places or things you have written about on the page Tony Fischier, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a conflict of interest may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. We ask that you:

avoid editing or creating articles about yourself, your family, friends, colleagues, company, organization, clients, or competitors;
propose changes on the talk pages of affected articles (you can use the {{edit COI}} template);
disclose your conflict of interest when discussing affected articles (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI);
avoid linking to your organization's website in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam § External link spamming);
do your best to comply with Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you are required by the Wikimedia Foundation's terms of use to disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution which forms all or part of work for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation. See Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure.

Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Wikishovel (talk) 13:08, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Tony Fischier moved to draftspace[edit]

Thanks for your contributions to Tony Fischier. Unfortunately, it is not ready for publishing because it has no sources. Your article is now a draft where you can improve it undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Jamiebuba (talk) 17:22, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully I've got it right now (tricky) :-) Algabatz (talk) 22:13, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Tony Fischier (September 3)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by TheChunky were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This submission's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article—that is, they do not show significant coverage (not just passing mentions) about the subject in published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject (see the guidelines on the notability of people). Before any resubmission, additional references meeting these criteria should be added (see technical help and learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue). If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, go to Draft:Tony Fischier and click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you do not edit your draft in the next 6 months, it will be considered abandoned and may be deleted.
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❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 03:05, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I would think a bunch of newspapers ARE reliable sources. I tried to figure it out, but I'm evidently not clever enough. Never mind, I'll leave adding to wikipedia to you guys, it's really too complicated for a non professional.

Keep up the good work!

/Al Gabatz Algabatz (talk) 08:45, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Algabatz! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! ❯❯❯ Chunky aka Al Kashmiri (✍️) 03:05, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Tony Fischier[edit]

Hello, Algabatz. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Tony Fischier, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 04:05, 3 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, Draft:Tony Fischier[edit]

Hello, Algabatz. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Tony Fischier".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 06:53, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The rules are too complicated. I was thinking about a few contributions, but's not worth the time. 217.215.147.97 (talk) 10:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]