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December 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Michael Shackleford has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Tu0K7A2NU, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwARnurpM3A. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file.
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March 2011

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Michael Shackleford. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Deconstructhis (talk) 19:37, 30 March 2011 (UTC)

I have read the terms of service and I believe that I am correct about my link to MY video that I MADE on youtube. I can see you taking down the link I posted to ourwebsite but the only reason I posted that was because all of the links to our videos keep being removed. Can you please tell me why the link to our video keeps being taken down? it is an interview with michael shackleford, it is appropriate and pertains to the information listed in the article. The links of ours that you have removed are no different from the "Dice Dealer interview," the "Slot Machine Fan interview," the "Professional Poker interview" or the "Blackjack interview" links that are already there.

I've started a discussion regarding this subject at the Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard which I'd like to invite you to join. thanks Deconstructhis (talk) 05:54, 5 April 2011 (UTC)