User talk:HoagL

Welcome![edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia, HoagL! Thank you for your contributions. I am MartinPoulter and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Lucy the Elephant[edit]

Hi, your link seems relevant to the article as far as I can tell. The thing to do when you get reverted is to propose the change on the article Talk page, in this case Talk:Lucy the Elephant. Then anyone who takes an interest in the article will be able to see it. Just use the text you've used in your message to me to explain why the link would be an addition to the article. Be aware that Wikipedia does get a lot of spammers and their most common tactic is to add external links, so it's not surprising when someone looks over a lot of recent changes and makes a wrong call. Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 22:41, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hoag Levins owned site Spamming[edit]

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Hello, HoagL. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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