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June 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Forest of Dean has been reverted.
Your edit here to Forest of Dean was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/#!/theforestofdean/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Forest of Dean. 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. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. Old Moonraker (talk) 16:05, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

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Please dont remove appropriate links from the Forest of Dean page. The link given is a direct link to a non-profit Official Local News, Views and Tourist info Twitter Feed.

This is your last warning. The next time you insert a spam link, as seen in Forest of Dean, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted, preventing anyone from linking to them from all Wikimedia sites as well as potentially being penalized by search engines. Did you read the link in the edit summary? Here it is again, to assist: WP:ELNO. Old Moonraker (talk) 12:25, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

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HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I GOT TO SAY THAT THE LINK IS NOT SPAM. ITS AN OFFICIAL TWITTER NEWS FEED FOR THE FOREST OF DEAN. NO DIFFERENT TO LINKING TO A LOCAL NEWSPAPER OR TOURIST INFORMATION WEBSITE. YOUR JUDGEMENT IS FLAWED

You have been blocked from editing for a short time for your disruption caused by edit warring and violation of the three-revert rule. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you would like to be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}} below this notice, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.

Daniel Case (talk) 12:38, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

To explain this policy to you better (see #10 at Links normally to be avoided: "Links to social networking sites (such as Myspace and Facebook), chat or discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), Twitter feeds ..."), we would only include a Twitter feed as an external link if it provided useful information we couldn't include in the article for other reasons. Most organizational Twitter feeds don't pass this test). Daniel Case (talk) 12:43, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case

Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Theforestofdean for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. Old Moonraker (talk) 15:54, 24 June 2012 (UTC)

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