User talk:MisterFine

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Hello, {{BASEPAGENAME}}! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on {{#if: |my talk page|my talk page}}, or place {{tl|helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

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Your link additions

25px Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added {{#if:|to the page :{{{1}}}}} 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 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, please discuss it on the {{#if:|article's talk page|article's talk page}} before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. {{#if:|{{{2}}}|Thank you.}} --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 14:58, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

30px This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link{{#if:Heartland Institute|, as you did to :Heartland Institute}}, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. {{#if:|{{{2}}}|}}

We are not a soapbox, nor a linkfarm. We are writing an encyclopedia here. The link you are adding may be of interest here and there as a reference (see also the reliable source guideline, and the footnotes guideline), but it is not an appropriate external link. The first warning in this section, and the edit before [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Consumer_Federation_of_America&diff=prev&oldid=229423806 this reversion] should have alerted you that the link may not be of interest in this way. Please discuss further additions on talkpages, or with an appropriate Wikipedia:WikiProject ^{T C} 09:22, 4 August 2008 (UTC)