LaurenceColletti

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LaurenceColletti, good luck, and have fun. --Shinerunner (talk) 16:33, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Spam

Please do not add advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. Vsmith (talk) 23:15, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

As you note on User talk:Roy Brumback, the website you are adding links to is your website. Please read WP:COI and stop promoting your own site. Replied previously on my talk page. Vsmith (talk) 12:27, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I've noticed you've spent a lot of time today reverting another users contributions and it has been a pretty common action. Do you know that technically even though it isn't on the same article you are in an Edit war that could results in blocks. I understand you're new here but please stop the reverts as this will not end well for anyone.Hell In A Bucket (talk) 18:44, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Response... Hell in a bucket, I did not mean to cause any problems or break any rules. My apologies. My intention was to enhance the articles where I posted. An administrator took my links down and I was merely putting them back up. Since I am new, I did not realize there was a protocol to such things... I thought someone had vandalized my article until I starting investigating. My posts are links to additional information (for Colorado parks) that I created and I wanted to share them. My apologies if I caused problems. I will review the rules that the Adminstrators sent over to me before I post again. LaurenceColletti (talk) 19:39, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Cool Beans, Thank you for reading the message. Please understand I wrote it to help out not to make you feel bad. Take a look at those policies and welcome. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 19:55, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

I did not take it as negative and I realize everyone is trying to protect the research ability which is a great thing... Thanks for your help

I was asked to chime in here as an uninvolved editor. I took a look at the website you linked to, and I don't see any major problem with you adding these links. I can understand why your contributions looked like spam, but the site doesn't appear to be advertising or trying to sell anything, so I think the links are probably OK. That said, if they get removed again you should probably leave them off or just add them to a few pages only.

Spam is a major problem for us, as many people want to take advantage of our top 10 traffic ranking to generate hits for their own websites. As such, experienced users will regularly revert contributions if appears you are spamming the same site across many pages. Thus it is best to not overdue it and only add links that actually enhance an article for our readers. See WP:EL for more information about our policies on external links.

Welcome to Wikipedia, and let me know if you need any further assistance, as I am always glad to help. --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:25, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Spring Cave

Please note that I left the central "Spring Cave" link on your website, from which the reader is just a click away from directions, map, as well as your "Cave Notes" safety information. I believe that an additional and separate link to "Cave Notes" would be superfluous. After all the work you obviously put into the Big Daddy website, you are no doubt proud all of the useful information provided, but there is no point in overloading wiki articles with multiple links to the same website. Regards, Plazak (talk) 02:30, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

Ok... I did not realize that it went to the site. Thanks!!! LaurenceColletti (talk) 02:54, 5 August 2009 (UTC)