User talk:Casseross
May 2025
[edit]Hello, I'm Serge, an Admin here on Wikipedia. So far, it appears that so far, your every edit seems to be related to adding a specific website, to Wikipedia. This is not okay. This violates Wikipedia's polices on WP:PROMOTION and WP:SPAM. If your only interest in being here is promoting the website, your account will be blocked from editing. If you wish to edit Wikipedia, it needs to be about building an encyclopedia, not promoting a website.
If you do plan on sticking around and editing in a non-promotional manner, you may also want to read and follow our Conflict of Interest guidelines as well. Thanks. Sergecross73 msg me 13:07, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Serge. I am not trying to directly promote the website, I am an Australian, they are an Australian based site that produces content that I feel adds to the pages that I am contributing to. I am still very new to Wikipedia as you can see from my edit history and once I am more familiar with how everything works I will certainly be branching out into other areas that I am familiar with. While it may look like spam or promotion that is not my intention at all. Casseross (talk) 13:14, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, you're very new. As of me leaving that comment, you only had 18 edits to your name. But 18 out of 18 edits were about this website, and 18 out of 18 were pro-arguments towards its use. That's not normal behavior for your average editor who joins with an actual interest in building an encyclopedia, that's the behavior of an editor here to promote a (or their) website. Sergecross73 msg me 13:28, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- Again that was not my intention and how you have mentioned it I can see how it does look that way. I had always wanted to try and contribute to Wikipedia and the Heavy Metal stuff is what I felt most interested in and Metal on Tap were the reviewers I was primarily reading and I may have wrongly assumed that other people would have jumped on the bigger outlets so I wanted to try and get some edits under my belt to get familiar.
- I will make more of an effort in other areas to try and change that perception because it truly isn't my intention and I do thank you for reaching out and making me aware of it respectfully. Casseross (talk) 13:35, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, you're very new. As of me leaving that comment, you only had 18 edits to your name. But 18 out of 18 edits were about this website, and 18 out of 18 were pro-arguments towards its use. That's not normal behavior for your average editor who joins with an actual interest in building an encyclopedia, that's the behavior of an editor here to promote a (or their) website. Sergecross73 msg me 13:28, 9 May 2025 (UTC)