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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page San Francisco, California do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Sfmammamia (talk) 18:42, 9 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop your disruptive editing, such as the edit you made to San Francisco, California. If your vandalism continues, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. BoL (Talk) 01:15, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia, because it has been identified as an account used for promotion of a company or group, with a username that implies that this has been done by that company or group. See Wikipedia:Business' FAQ and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest.

This kind of activity is considered spamming and is forbidden by Wikipedia policies. In addition, the use of a username like yours violates our username policy.

You may appeal this block by adding the text {{unblock|your reason here}} below or emailing the administrator who blocked you.

Your reason should include your response to this issue and a new username you wish to adopt that does not violate our username policy (specifically, understand that accounts are for individuals, not companies or groups, and that your username should reflect this). Usernames that have already been taken are listed here.

Daniel Case (talk) 01:42, 26 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

{unblock|Hello. My name is Erik and i am the person behind the MetroWize profile. I would like to contest my block on this site not because of argument that my link was not a proper link -although i do find the link extremely relevent - but more due to ignorance my part. I was trying to add to the knowledge base within wikipedia for San Francisco by including what I feel is a great resource to more information about the city that i live in. I understand now that since MetroWize is my website I should not be linking to it. I do not want to lose my ability to stay included in this knowledge base so i ask that you please re-consider this block. I am more than happy to adopt a new screen name as well. If this can be handled through this thread, my screen name can be erikrumors. Please let me know the verdict. I honestly had no intention of spamming anyone but recognize my mistake now. Thank you}

Your request to be unblocked has been granted for the following reason(s): Allowing username change to erikrumors (talk · contribs). Please put this request in at Wikipedia:Changing username as soon as possible to avoid re-blocking. Request handled by:  Sandstein  07:26, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]