On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 12:25 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8 July 2012 12:44, Mike  Dupont <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Telling a user that I took the effort to archive thier article is
>> considered spam? What if you are the author? Dont you have the right
>> to know?
>>
>> See this :
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:John_doe_london&action=history
>> (cur | prev) 09:10, 8 July 2012‎ Mrmatiko (talk | contribs)‎ . .
>> (4,816 bytes) (-158)‎ . . (Undid revision 501206682 by Mdupont (talk)
>> spam) (undo)
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont#Promotional_edits
>> and my message back http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mrmatiko#Spam.3F
>>
>> I have reverted the template to not have a link to the wikia, for now.
>> I would like some support for my project and protection to contact
>> users about the deleted articles.
>>
>> thanks,
>> mike
>>
> Large scale unsolicited external linking? spam.

Well I turned off the link in my template, but even if it was linked,
how else are you supposed to inform the user?
here is my rfc : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mdupont/SpeedyDeletionWikia

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