User talk:Scribe711

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Happy editing! Outsider80^(talk) 00:55, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2009

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Maya Angelou, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. Figureskatingfan (talk) 05:18, 28 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I will accept that, as a new user, you are not familiar with all of the rules in Wikipedia. so please take note; you are continuing to add spam links to articles, in spite of being asked not to. Be advised that this is regarded as vandalism, and if you continue to do this you will be prevented from making further edits to the encyclopedia. Please check out the blue-links in this message before making ANY other edits. Also, please think of this as a last warning. --Anthony.bradbury^"talk" 21:08, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Just this week, our author interviews were used in online content by the The Guardian of London, http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/audioslideshow/2009/jan/29/johnupdike , and also by The World, a production of Public Radio International. I sorely wish that the Wikipedia editors who claim our external links are "spam" or "vandalism" had, at least, a rudimentary understanding of American literature or the patience and intelligence to take five minutes and check out our web site at http://wiredforbooks.org . Reckless and ignorant editors have done much damage to the Wikipedia project and this is a good example of that recklessness.

Our external links have been a major part of Wikipedia in past years, yet we continue to find hundreds of our links to audio interviews disabled. Many of these authors have won the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, several have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many, many thousands of Wikipedia users have followed these external links and listened to the content at Wired for Books.

Please stop disabling and deleting our content. Thank you.

Scribe711 (talk) 18:58, 30 January 2009 (UTC)scribe711 David Kurz kurz@ohio.edu WOUB Center for Public Media at Ohio University[reply]