User talk:Cmattison387

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Hello, Cmattison387, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Optimal design, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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June 2013

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Concrete cancer. 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. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 16:50, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is your last warning. The next time you use Wikipedia for soapboxing, promotion or advertising, as you did at Reliability engineering, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Velella ^{Velella Talk} 16:54, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for adding spam links. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia and potentially penalized by search engines. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. JohnCD (talk) 17:35, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please read the policy Wikipedia:External links, particularly the section WP:EL#ADV. JohnCD (talk) 17:37, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Cmattison387 (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

I am not here to spam, I was asked to upload relevant papers to wikipedia by one of my professors so that others looking for further information could use these papers as references. I was only positing links to the papers. Had no idea this was wrong and I wasn't trying to spam.

Decline reason:

I'm sorry - there are multiple warnings here, some of which you personally removed, which means that you actually SAW them yet continued. (✉→BWilkins←✎) 11:01, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to make any further unblock requests, please read the guide to appealing blocks first, then use the {{unblock}} template again. If you make too many unconvincing or disruptive unblock requests, you may be prevented from editing this page until your block has expired. Do not remove this unblock review while you are blocked.

What you were doing is exactly what we call WP:LINKSPAM. I will leave your request for another administrator to review, but I note that you removed from your talk page a request to revert your edits, and continued making more than a dozen more after the warnings above. You also made several more while not logged in, as Special:Contributions/2620:103:A000:1601:F571:8856:C206:C60. Please ask your professor to read WP:EL#ADV. JohnCD (talk) 17:52, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]