User talk:BeenFranklin76

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May 2015

Hello, I'm GiantSnowman. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page Antonio Carbognani, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. GiantSnowman 14:42, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

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

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Thanks for explaining the situation - to avoid further confusion you might wish to change your name at WP:RENAME (perhaps MemphisAmericansFan (talk · contribs) or similar?) though this is not required. I would also please ask that you cease mass-adding the 'Memphis Americans' website to articles as that could be seen as spam/promotional. You might get further info/help about being a new user from WP:TEAHOUSE. GiantSnowman 15:38, 14 May 2015 (UTC)