Hudroy

{{helpme}} HELP - i'm confused..... it seems like someone thinks that i am "promoting" businesses or commerce or a soap box or something with my postings on CUPID and maybe Santa..... so i'm confused. i'm a mom and an anthropologist and i found a great site that re-examines the holiday myths and uses the characters to look at diversity and globalization and other issues. it's not a commerce site, no one is making any money anywhere, yet my posts got taken down as violating some policy that i guess i don't understand.... i was trying to take part in a discussion about these characters in pop culture, that's all. but the posts promoting movies (like the new Vince Vaughn film) remain. I'm not trying to promote anything other than a cool depiction of beloved holiday characters as a representation of how cultures use these characters throughout time....

If you are not associated with the website, please do not upload images and claim them as self-made. Image:TinkerTank Cupid.jpg and Image:TinkerTank Santa.jpg are copyright violations if you did not actually take the photos.

I have put the helpme template on your page, so an experienced sysop can help you.

The reason your textual contributions were tagged as spam is because they contained substantially similar text across multiple articles with inline links to an external web site. Maybe you can discuss on the article talk page with more experienced writers whether that text is appropriate. Miami33139 (talk) 02:18, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

thanks and help

for helping understand what i THINK i did wrong in posting about Cupid and Santa as depicted on TinkerTank.org. I'm still confused, but hope that people "get" my intention was not spammy and I can figure out how to include these in the dialog on those pages. basically, there is discussion of all of those characters in popular culture and how they are used and evolve, so i linked to the TinkerTank.org site, which is not commercial in any way (there's NOTHING for sale at all) but is a purely "academic" and creative site that re-imagines all these myths in a modern way to be useful to parents and kids..... so i guess it seemed spammy because I mentioned it in each of the character postings on Wikipedia.... Personally, I've never seen anything quite like it, because it does have all the characters in one place, and it isn't selling stuff like other sites..... and the characters are totally original.... so i'm trying to figure out how to join the dialog without breaking the rules..... thanks for helping Hudroy (talk) 02:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

In addition, those images just don't add useful information to those articles. Many, many images of these characters exist, but a paragraph about each of them would make the article unreadable. Unless this web site is unusually significant, there's no real reason that a paragraph about it would be helpful in an article about who Santa Claus or Cupid is. Whether you made them or not, they just aren't needed.-FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 11:05, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:TinkerTank Cupid.jpg

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles, as you did to Cupid. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Kbh3^rdtalk 00:51, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

This is your last warning.
The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- KnowledgeOfSelf | talk 00:55, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

okay - so it was an images problem? that's cool. i couldn't figure out how to add images right anyway, they're just so cool. but if people want to see them, they can go to the original site and see them. that's what i get for trying to be a techie.... i read and re-read the stuff i wrote and just couldn't see what was objectionable, so can it go back on, without my lame attempts to be cool and add the pictures?