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  Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Youngstown, Ohio 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 02:39, 14 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Youngstown, Ohio. 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. Youngstown is a Featured article and what you are adding does not meet the Featured article criteria - it reads like an advertisement, is unreferenced (except for a link to the company itself), and based on your user name and previous edits, I think you might have a conflict of interest. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:37, 14 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

If you have referces from reliable third-party sources, why not raise this on the Youngstown talk page? The information can probably be included, just in less promotional, more neutral terms. Ruhrfisch ><>°° 19:32, 14 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

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