User talk:Jkbrn1

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Happy editing! ~Kvng (talk) 16:25, 19 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Spam spam spam[edit]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Plasma lamp. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.

--Srleffler (talk) 22:06, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking into this a bit further, it looks like you have been fixing dead URLs in references by pointing to archived copies of the content hosted on your own website. I presume you just botched the URL in this case, resulting in a link to the homepage rather than to the specific target.

The worst thing in all of this is that you have been fixing dead links by replacing the original URL with your new one. Do not do this. Leave the original, dead URL intact. That is our record of where the information originally came from. Put the new link in the archive-url field, and add the date the content was archived in the archive-date field. If you are just getting the archived content from archive.org or a similar cite, it would be better if you pointed to that site for the archived information rather than to your own copy. Your site will not likely outlast archive.org.--Srleffler (talk) 22:40, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note that you cannot use Wikipedia to drive traffic to your website. Anything that looks like you are doing that will get you blocked.--Srleffler (talk) 22:42, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This edit to Plasma speaker was dishonest: the edit summary says "Archive reference", but what you did was change an external link to point to an entirely different article on your website.--Srleffler (talk) 22:49, 20 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]