User talk:HolmesSPH

September 2008

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Underoath. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. ŁittleÄlien¹⁸² (_talk\^contribs) 23:10, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

March 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Emery (band) do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:11, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages, as you did to Falling Up. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:13, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

April 2010

Please see guidelines for external links and stop adding the site to bands' pages. Social networks do not comply with Wikipedia guidelines. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 20:13, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Your edit to List of social networking websites

Thank you for your edit to List of social networking websites. Unfortunately it had to be reverted, because the website you added to the list does not have a Wikipedia article. Please write the article first, or post to Wikipedia:Requested articles requesting that it be created. Please make sure that the article follows Wikipedia guidelines, especially as concerns verifiability, reliable sources and neutrality. If a website is not notable according to the Wikipedia definition, it shouldn't have an article and neither should it be in the list. Thank you! --bonadea contributions talk 20:20, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

MyPraize.com

It's not enough to simply assert that the thing is notable on somebody's talk page; the article, as written, failed to demonstrate media coverage or notability.

You're always free to write (or request that someone else write) a new article that's better-referenced to real media sources, but just saying "we have X number of members and we've had media coverage" on an administrator's talk page, weeks after the fact, doesn't really cut it if the article itself wasn't written to make the site's notability immediately apparent in the first place.

Please understand that our notability rules aren't necessarily a judgement on the worthiness of the topic; they're strictly a judgement on the quality of the article. A properly written article about the site would probably get kept — but we're not necessarily obliged to keep an article that doesn't meet our standards just because the author comes back after the fact to complain about it. Bearcat (talk) 21:37, 6 April 2010 (UTC)