SpockTeam2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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. 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. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 17:58, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well potentially being penalized by search engines. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 22:40, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Ohnoitsjamie, I'm curious as to why my contributions keep on getting removed. For instance I added a link to Arizona State University which is a directory to Arizona State Alumni and Faculty. Spock is a people search, and the link I contributed was for a specific search for Arizona State Alumni and faculty. Is it because the link contains a long list of various occupations and companies? Those particular links are connected to ASU alumni (ie graduate of ASU that works at Microsoft). Is this not relevant? SpockTeam2008

Have you actually read WP:EL? Specifically, Links to be normally avoided #9: "Links to the results pages of search engines, Search aggregators, or RSS feeds." --NeilN ^{talk ♦ contribs} 22:54, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

July 2008

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy for continuing to add spam links. 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. GDonato (talk) 22:54, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

I agree that it technically is categorized as a search engine, however Spock is different because the link leads to a Spock profile of people that fit a certain criteria (such as Arizona State Alumni that work at Microsoft), as opposed to directly linking to pages of people on other sites .

With regard to link relevancy- I fail to see why this external link http://www.tropicmon.com/ is more relevant than this (http://www.spock.com/q/IFOCE) on the search of competitive eating. SpockTeam2008

Apparently you haven't read WP:COI yet. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 23:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

However, thank you for pointing out that link. I have removed it and others not meeting WP:EL. --NeilN ^{talk ♦ contribs} 00:03, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Hey I know that I've been blocked but Wikipedia contains a number of external links from a search engine called "pipl" SpockTeam2008