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Vandalism

Recently there have been many attempts to remove links relating to Shaftesbury's web site ShaftesburyTown.co.uk this website is completely non-commercial and non-profit and free to all members of the town. It also is the only full online copy of the towns tourism guides, where to stay and where to eat, the chamber of commerces directory and the minutes and agendas of the council.

Please would commercial sites refrain from 'raping' wikipeida with spam links and if that is not enough then going on to damage long standing legitimate links calling them 'expired' or spam them selfs when they are clearly not.

Thanks --Shaftesbury 09:13, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

This user has been spamming Dorset related articles for over a year with off-topic links to Shaftesburytown.co.uk. I will request the sites addition to the spam filter if it doesn't stop. Joe D (t) 17:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

Steinsky is being very pathetic, the dorset page has nothing to do with me (check history of that page!) and shaftesburytown.co.uk is and remains the only non-commerial website dedicated to shaftesbury and its area, as a responisble citizen of this town I will continue to support the work done by shaftesburytown.co.uk since the other 2 sites are either commericaly owned and wasting tax payers money that was given out with out due process or owned by a company that is still under investegation for not completing a contract(if there ever was one) to do a town website for the council.

This site will continue to be linked from wikipedia since its the only one that fully complys with the rules. The user steinsky has been reported to moderators for his actions. --Shaftesbury 17:54, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

After taking a look at this website I can clearly see it deserves linking, and reading the arb request that was filed I can see no justifcation for its removal since they found no wrong doing by user Shaftesbury. I do wish people would go throug the proper channels instead of just deleting information off their own back. --Curuxz 19:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

The "arb" request wasn't filed correctly and was closed due to lack of interest. I can go into quite some detail about the policies broken in the pushing of this site if you like. Joe D (t) 19:49, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Then go through proper channels and come back and change this page but stirring up trouble for your own personal reasons is odd. The link will be restored to the page every time it is removed since I am yet another person from Shaftesbury that supports the work this great site does as the most relevant resource, I was shocked that when I joined wikipeida it was not there but even more shocked that it WAS there but had been removed by someone who is not even FROM our town (referenced from your own page) and that a complaint about you had already been filed through the proper channels and the link was allowed to remain. I have emailed the admins of Shaftesburytown about whats going on here I hope they will come and also explain to you how wikipedia works and how to conduct fair edits without just annoying people. I am not going to discuss this issue with you further since the next time you try and screw around with our towns page for no good reason I'll be the one filling the complaint. --81.155.189.244 06:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm well aware of how the policies work, thanks, and if you were too, you'd know that the complaint got nowhere. I imagine the admins are aware of the Misplaced Pages issue, as I don't know who else it would be going around adding it to so many inappropriate pages, the reason it made it to my spam list in the first place. It is not the content of the site that makes this spam, but the behaviour of the person/people pushing it on Misplaced Pages. Joe D (t) 08:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

External links

Misplaced Pages:External_links provides a guideline for including and excluding external links in an article. If you wish to include or exclude external links in this article, please read Misplaced Pages:External_links and use the text from Misplaced Pages:External_links to support your position. If you have trouble with using the text from Misplaced Pages:External_links to support your position, please post a note on my talk page and I will gladly provide assistance. -- Jreferee 16:21, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Association of Members' Advocates

Your case has been opened here, Misplaced Pages:Association of Members' Advocates/Requests/January 2007/Shaftesbury. Please see it for more details.--Natl1 (Talk Page) (Contribs) 12:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Removing: "In popular culture" section

I really fail to see how this adds to the page, I am tempted to expand this article further since at the moment it is the subject of frequent vandalism by people against the town's website being linked on the page (despite a wikipedia ruling that did not say it should go and it being within the rules). But while they vandalised the page and removed the link they also deleted this section on popular culture, which I sadly have to agree with.

To many other figures have refrenced the town, it seems strange to have one bit of one comics work on there. I'll propose a better larger page soon once I have obtained the correct copyright from the town website to use images and text to expand this page. --Curuxz 09:56, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

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