User talk:Venture West

Welcome to Wikimedia Commons, Venture West!

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 00:04, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Please do not advertise on Commons

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Wikimedia Commons has an educational purpose, and is not the place to post promotional links or to advertise. Creating articles, userpages, templates, etc. with promotional text is not permitted, nor is the posting of links anywhere on the Commons in an attempt to advertise a website, product, company, person, or organization. Uploading of company logos, press images, and the like in order to advertise or use them only in promotional material on other wikis is also prohibited, and such images will be deleted if they are found to violate our policies. Recreation of deleted content or continuing to post links or promotional text or files after this warning may result in a block. Thank you for understanding.

Achim (talk) 18:02, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

My intention was not to advertise but to post pictures for people to use and enjoy. I have taken any description of the company out of the description. I am only asking for a link back to the site if someone wants to use the photos because the photos are the property of the website. Please let me know if there is an issue before deleting if I am still doing something not to your liking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Venture West (talk • contribs) 19:23, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Fine, welcome here on Commons and thank you for contributing to our project! Well, I'm asking for some understanding because the amount of spam accounts and pages (many created by bots) has increased during the past weeks, so we have to block more than 300 accounts or IPs every month. Regards, --Achim (talk) 19:35, 2 March 2018 (UTC)