User talk:Dalelovell

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meco (talk) 08:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

December 2007 (http://spam.urbanplanet.co.uk http://spam.financedaily.co.uk)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Spread betting. 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. 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. MER-C 09:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. JohnCD (talk) 09:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

December 2007

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Individual Savings Account, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from all of Wikipedia. MER-C 10:02, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with the assertion that this user's addition of external links is in violation of WP policy. The links that I have briefly looked at appear to be valid artist interviews and in no way spam or promotional. These censures appear knee-jerk to me. __meco (talk) 16:43, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]