Gilesmorgan

Hi,

Welcome to wikipedia. I noticed you had added a link to a commercial web site to Clevedon. I have reverted this as wikipedia is not a place for commercial advertising. If you have anything significant to add to the article then that would be welcome. — Rod ^talk

Same for your edit to Surrey --Moonraker88 11:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Please see here for the policy on commercial links. Adding these to articles is regarded as vandalism and can result in your being blocked.--Moonraker88 11:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

More on this after your points on my talkpage. ATB --Moonraker88 13:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Spam

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Harpenden. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.

Spam will always be removed. 84.13.225.14 12:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Welcome

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Blocked

Thanks for your message about being blocked. I am not an admin & do not have the power to block (or unblock) you. However I'm not surprised you have been blocked. Adding hundreds of links to a commercial website which adds nothing to the articles concerned is not appropriate beahviour on wikipedia as set out in the policies and guidelines I posted above. As for your comment that "We are no different than another website called www.thebestof.co.uk which is a commercial website also. Of which you have 26 listed occurences of them on Wikipedia." I was not aware of this & I'm sure they will also be deleted when found. Adding nearly 100 links to the same site to random articles in a few hours is seen as linkspam!— Rod ^talk 12:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

You are not blocked, but the links that you added to your website have been deleted. Blocking is when an administrator blocks (temporarily or permanently) your computer from making any edits on this wiki. 62.173.88.59 15:07, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Town & Country Club Block

Hi,

I apologise as I am new to all this. We did not mean to offend or break the rules, we just wanted to make sure that all of our regions were listed so users can find local info through us. We have 39 regions hence why I was trying to cover all of them with external links.

I would appreciate it if you could advise on how I can proceed in doing it properly.

Thanks in advance

Giles

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Town & Country

Hi,

Thanks for your response, but I cannot understand how you class our site as spam. Our members know our site, but new people looking for information locally don't, they can still see up to date stories and local events & directory, they just can't use our further services unless the become a free member.

We are absolutely no different to www.thebestof.co.uk who you have listed over 26 times on this site.

I am just confused as to what harm I have caused or indeed how it affects anyone by us being listed under external links for information?

You even have icSurreyonline listed on this site, which is a massive commercial operation owned by News International!

I hope we can resolve this as I wish to contribute to the Wikipedia community

Giles —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gilesmorgan (talk • contribs) 13:43, 8 December 2006 (UTC).

Reply about your links

The information above and the links provided above should help you. I have just had another look at your website, and in my opinion, I think that your website, as it stands at the present time, will always be considered to be spam on this wiki. Surely, your members should already know your web site anyway. 84.13.225.14 13:21, 8 December 2006 (UTC)