User talk:19thcenturylit
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Can we hold off for the full 30-days of the RFC[edit]
There is NO CONSENSUS on the Talk page for Jane Austen for any of these edits by these 4 users. All editors must follow the Open RFC to the letter until it ends. Could you hold these edits until the RfC is completed. Fountains-of-Paris (talk) 17:10, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
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February 2017[edit]
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Medieval theatre. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Chris Troutman (talk) 15:33, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}. Orange Mike | Talk 21:37, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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Request reason:
I was blocked for placing promotional links on pages. I wasn't adding the external links for promotional reasons, I was adding relevant links to a website called Discovering Literature that is a constantly growing, free, non-commercial, educational website created by the British Library. I believe that the links to this website will enhance Wikipedia user's search for further information from a reliable and respected institution. I will not add another link to the Medieval Theater page as I do understand that the link from there to the British Library is tenuous, and for that link I apologize, but I hope you will agree that the other times I have linked to the British Library site are all clearly relevant and enrich your user's research experience. 19thcenturylit (talk) 15:10, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
Decline reason:
Procedural decline: no response to our questions. Max Semenik (talk) 01:50, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
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- Are you interested in contributing something besides links? I think at this point it's clear that lots of people wouldn't be comfortable with you continuing what you were doing. Max Semenik (talk) 19:08, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
- I gather, 19thcenturylit, that you are associated with the British Library or the website in particular. Even in cases where you would be right about the link being useful you have a conflict of interest. Whereas you might be motivated to help readers find material that would help them, all you're accomplishing is pushing traffic to that website. Wikipedia is the destination and if you were here to write an encyclopedia then you'd be writing paragraphs of content supported by reliable sources. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a finding aid. I'd recommend contacting Andrew Gray, a former Wikipedian-in-Residence at the British Library or consider sponsoring a Wikipedia Visiting Scholar to find out how you can cooperate with Wikipedia. Chris Troutman (talk) 19:28, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
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