User talk:Roger.smith

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Please feel free to drop me a question on my talk page If there's anything you think I can help with. Andrewa 01:10, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Technical director

I've redirected your article to Technical Director, which seems to have the same text and which is an older article. You might like to see Wikipedia:Redirect for how to assign a second name or difference in capitalisation to an existing article.--gadfium 05:09, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

External link in model article

Please look at the change to the model article regarding the external link section; the unique entry there links to what I believe is a company you are affiliated with. Please make any modification you think is fair to the qualification, but I think the statement that this link points to a for-profit company that offers (or claims to offer) modeling services should remain.CSTAR 15:19, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Now that I'm here Re: Technical director

It would be helpful to provide an organizational structure graph, with explicit semantics of nodes and links, such as flow of information and responsabilities along links.CSTAR 15:19, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Commercial use of Image:Elecsim.gif

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Image:ELECHOME.GIF listed for deletion

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March 2009

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On adding your own website as a "further reading" or a reference

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Just wanted to reinforce what McGeddon is saying. There is a lot of room to make great improvements to Wikipedia if you have a keen interest in any subject. But we have guidelines such as Wikipedia:Conflict of interest that are meant to prevent people from self-promoting, and other guidelines that are meant to become a soapbox to promote the ideas and theories of others. If you have a keen interest in games, you might want to try improving an article instead of linking to your own presentation. That's the kind of contribution that helps build Wikipedia up. Randomran (talk) 15:11, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

November 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Benjamin Franklin 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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 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. Leuko ^Talk/_Contribs 00:21, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. While objective prose about products or services is acceptable, Wikipedia is not intended to be a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Thank you. Leuko ^Talk/_Contribs 00:25, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. McGeddon (talk) 00:51, 3 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of Elecsim for deletion

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