Pinkmaverick
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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Portal:Contents/Lists/Culture and the arts, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:
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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. OhNoitsJamie Talk 16:41, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
I have not been spamming and I thought it would be a cool idea to add some resources at least. I just thought the links I found can be useful to the topic.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pinkmaverick (talk • contribs) 17:28, 11 January 2012
- OK, it looks as if we've misunderstood your intentions! But please take a look at the Wikipedia guideline on external links before adding any more of these links. The guidelines are stricter than many editors realise. -- John of Reading (talk) 17:32, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
A tag has been placed on your user page, User:Pinkmaverick/sandbox, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group or service, and which is a violation of our policies regarding acceptable use of user pages: user pages are intended for active editors of Wikipedia to communicate with one another as part of the process of creating encyclopedic content, and should not be mistaken for free webhosting resources. Please read the guidelines on spam, the guidelines on user pages, and, especially, our FAQ for Organizations.
If you can indicate why the page is not blatant advertising, contest the deletion by clicking on the button that looks like this: 
which appears inside of the speedy deletion ({{db-...}}) tag (if no such tag exists, the page is no longer a speedy delete candidate). Doing so will take you to your user talk page where you will find a pre-formatted place for you to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. You can also edit this page directly to give your reasons, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would help make it encyclopedic. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. –sumone10154(talk) 03:45, 4 December 2012 (UTC)