Carlblackburn

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PlayStation Portable

Regardless of the legality of "PlayStation Blender", consider this an official warning from a Wikipedia administrator that promotional links are inappropriate on Wikipedia. Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in PlayStation Portable. 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. --  Netsnipe   ►  05:17, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Please stop re-adding this link. Advertisement of commercial services and especially endorsement of illegal activity is prohibited by Wikipedia's external link policy. You should also be aware of the three-revert rule which states that no one user may revert an article's contents more than three times in any 24-hour period. You are close to breaking this policy, and doing so may result in a temporary block from editing. I encourage you to review the external link policy to see why users are objecting to the addition of this link. Advertisement and legal problems aside, an external link must be considered useful by a consensus of editors to stay. The consensus in this case is clearly to omit this link. -- mattb 05:45, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the warning, which I'll respond to in detail:

• The legality of the link. I personally have no idea whether the content of the link or the article where it deals with firmware modifications that facilitate PSP piracy are illegal. But if it is they should be shut down, which can only happen if they've transgressed the law, authorities are notified and action taken. Until then, I doubt Wikipedia will be able to play much of a judicial role.
• What is the status of this "official warning"? And why would you use such threatening language - however unexplained - when this very page of yours lectures others about being civil. Physician heal thyself.
• The link is not promotional anymore than any other content about PSP is promotional about the system, games or whatever.
• I agree Wikipedia ought not be a directory of links, but I found it useful and wondered why it was removed. I'm yet to recieve an explanation about why. Why is it inappropriate? You say it links to a personal web site, it doesn't seem to be that, that it's a website with which I am affiliated, it isn't that and exists to attract visitors to a site or promote a product, I don't see that it does that either. If there's more material on this (which you suggest there might be) please point me to it because I may be missing something. What I believe is going on is that there are Sony company employees involved in determining the content of this article and I really do wonder how appropriate that is.
• I agree the link should be discussed. I'm not one of those people who believes I am right about everything. I have fully participated in the discussion and am open to a coherent, rational argument but I haven't yet seen one, including from you. -- Carlblackburn 05:38, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

If your intentions about "PSP Blender" were genuine, you would have posted a link to the official site at pspblender.com and then we can have a legitimate discussion about whether its linking is legal or not. Instead, you've posted a link to "Squidoo" which appears to be a link farm filled with affiliate marketing links that probably line your own pockets. Your act isn't fooling anyone. By "official", I'm inferring that further violations of our WP:SPAM and WP:3RR policies may lead to you being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Your case is currently up for review at administrators' noticeboard here. --  Netsnipe  ►  06:04, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Actually, having further reviewed pspblender.com, I highly doubt even that link will be accepted on Wikipedia either. --  Netsnipe  ►  06:05, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, clearly something is up with Carlbackburn. S/he's either doing this for laughs or is really that naive. - Throw 04:06, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Blocked

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You have been blocked for a period of 1 week from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you are welcome to come back after the block expires. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia. --  Netsnipe  ►  16:45, 24 April 2007 (UTC)