User talk:Yourstorysmith

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Hello, Yourstorysmith, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see:

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 19:25, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

• Explain those spammy posts, please, and why you pick those editors. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 19:28, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
• You have given me no reason to believe you're not spamming for a specific publication. If you continue, you will be blocked. If you feel article improvements need to be made, go make them. Drmies (talk) 19:55, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

June 2017

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for advertising or promotion. From your contributions, this seems to be your only purpose. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may request an unblock by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  caknuck _° needs to be running more often 05:05, 24 June 2017 (UTC)

Block

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Yourstorysmith (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I request to be unblocked as an editor, as I now understand how my role as Wikipedia editor works. I was blocked for advertising or promotion, as I sent messages to previous editors of Wikipedia pages instead of making the changes on my own. I've read the various instruction pages and understand why I was blocked. Please kindly unblock me and I will not do it again, and will make productive contributions instead. Yourstorysmith (talk) 17:54, 8 July 2017 (UTC)

Decline reason:

No, that you messaged random people is not the reason for the block. That you're single-mindedly pushing links to a single website is a problem, namely linkspam. That wouldn't be any better if you added linkspam yourself. I rather don't think we'd have any scruples about adding "The Wall Street Journal's sister publication" to the spam blacklist if necessary. Probably WP:PAID also applies to you. Huon (talk) 10:44, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

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