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Contents 1 April 2007 2 Sockpuppetry case 3 Response to your question on my talk page[1] 4 Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Alexlot

[edit] April 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Seven Natural Wonders do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then 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. --Mary quite contrary ^(hai?) 15:56, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Alexlot for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page.

--Kralizec! (talk) 19:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Response to your question on my talk page[1]

Yes, I looked at your page. Please see WP:EL for Wikipedia guidance on acceptable external links. Your page appears to be a random collection of links for things the owner finds interesting - news, weather, sports, a survey, and Dan Brown. The pages you linked to do not contain any scholarship or information especially beneficial to the articles you placed the links on. And that's your second problem - articles, plural. You placed your links across several other pages, including Seven Wonders of the World, New Seven Wonders of the World, and Seven Natural Wonders. While placing your links on one page would have just been perhaps a misunderstanding of acceptable external links, placing them across several pages is what makes it linkspam.

To compound your problem, you're also doing the same thing under Camelot31. This is sockpuppetry, and what makes me not buy the "innocent mistake" thing. Please refrain from linking to your page on Wikipedia. I have also posted this response on my talk page. Thank you. --Mary quite contrary ^(hai?) 20:50, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

First, I want to address the vandalism claim - never once did I call you a vandal. Second, the fact "that sockpuppetry is not automatically vandalism" does not excuse sockpuppetry.

On the subject of the information you can provide as a Rome native - I'm from Boston, but I can't create a website about Boston and go around linking it to Boston-related sites on Wikipedia. I can link to Boston-related articles in established news media, I can link to academic research on Bostonian subjects, etc., but I cannot self-reference. Even if a friend made a website about, say, California, unless my friend is a scholar, scientist, or journalist following the accepted research guidelines of her community, I can't link to her site in an article about California. Make sense?

Wikipedia has some fairly-well established policies about these things - WP:NOT, WP:NOR, WP:RS, and WP:EXTERNAL are some of the ones you should read up on. However, given the language barrier (and that's not a slam on your English skills - these policies confuse plenty of native English speakers as well), you may want to try reading up on these over at the Italian Wikipedia. I suggest you start at [2], which will better explain the examples I came up with in the paragraph above, [3], which contains guidelines for external links, and [4], which is what not to put on Wikipedia. You should also really look around for the sections on Attribution (Attributizione) and Reliable Sources (Fonti Certe? - VERY important to answering your query). I would have linked to them, but my Italian is far, far worse than your English. Take your time getting a feel for these guidelines and policies, as they are close to the hearts of those trying to maintain Wikipedia's integrity. Thank you. --Mary quite contrary ^(hai?) 22:11, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

It is getting very obvious that you do not, in fact, know the guidelines, otherwise not only you would not have a sockpuppet, you would also understand why your link doesn't fly. And you're right, I didn't answer your argument that "other links do it, so I should be able to", because it's not good logic. No, I haven't checked every other link on those pages, but just because other non-kosher links have escaped attention doesn't mean that we shouldn't remove any of them. I'm going to go back and look at the others when I get a chance.

However, your use of the dmoz link as an example shows that you probably haven't read a line of Wikipedia's external links guidelines, because right in its very first section is stated:

Rather than creating a long list of external links, editors should consider linking to a related category in the Open Directory Project (also known as DMOZ) that is devoted to creating relevant directories of links pertaining to various topics. (See {{Dmoz}}.) If there is no relevant category, you can request help finding or creating a category by placing {{Directory request}} on the article's talk page.

And if you want to make a "public discussion" about the links, you should always feel free to do so at the Rome article talk page, because community discussion makes Wikipedia what it is. However, I want to let you know beforehand that I'm not making this stuff up on the spot - this is general Wikipedia consensus on external links, so you should really give WP:EXTERNAL a good read-through before starting that argument. Take care, --Mary quite contrary ^(hai?) 06:37, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Alexlot

It has been established that you engaged in sockpuppetry by evidence presented here: Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Alexlot, and you are therefore blocked for period of 48 hours. You're welcome to make useful contributions after the block expires.

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Akhilleus (talk • contribs) 05:18, 7 April 2007 (UTC).