User talk:Shoalsart

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Sabine's Sunbird talk 23:39, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there again. Okay, so perhaps I was overzealous, I saw the link provided talking about a piece of art and that your username was the same; these are traits often used by unimaginative spammers, as it strongly suggests that there is a conflict of interest (self promotion). I assumed that it was a gallery rather than an NGO that was doing the self promotion though. Even so, it is considered bad form to link to oneself, and especially to do so in the main body of the text, where possible extrenal links should be in the appropriate section. It is not inapproriate to link to teh Audabon Society, it is rather inappropriate for the Audabon Socity to do so. Sabine's Sunbird talk 01:21, 29 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]