User talk:Slidinandridin06

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[edit] Orphaned non-free media (Image:Liberty.gif)

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[edit] Spam

Your 18 January 2008 edit to Agarwood is considered to be SPAM. Your 18 January 2008 edit to Black pepper is considered to be SPAM. "Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam." This is true whether the link is in a section called "External links" or in the body of the text. Do not promote "Liberty Natural Products". See also Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. --Bejnar (talk) 07:26, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I noted the addition of similar spam to thirteen other articles. --Bejnar (talk) 07:46, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

With my contributions to the different essential oils, I was merely giving users a resource for compiled data on a vast selection of essential oils. I think is important that people understand all of the safety specifications to each essential oil. If you check the link you can see that the page that is linked to is a list of essential oils that have Material Safety Data Sheets. Please elaborate on how this is considered to be spam. --Slidinandridin06 18 Jan 2008 20:07:53 GMT

Wikipedia has a very strong policy about spam. I quote: "Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam. Although the specific links may be allowed under some circumstances, repeatedly adding links will in most cases result in all of them being removed." If you had just added a single link in the "External links" section of the Essential Oils article, you probably would not have had a problem. Tagging sixteen-odd articles, even when essential oils were not discussed, such as in the Black Pepper article, was clearly spam under the guidelines. You used essentially the same language each time, and you did not point out any of the specific dangers, nor reference the specific datasheet for the herb/spice article you were editing. For example for Black Pepper Http://www....//msd/135.htm. It does seems obvious that you were promoting a product, not safety. Wikipedia also has a Conflict of Interest policy at Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. Read it. --Bejnar (talk) 06:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)