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I received Wikipedia's notice about the link to ScoopMill.com being considered link spam. However, I wanted to explain the website to you and "plead my case," as it were.

ScoopMill is a community website about Fort Mill, SC; Tega Cay, SC; and Indian Land, SC. The website has information about the towns including maps and lists of services provided (government, schools, civic clubs, restaurants, doctors and churches). The website also provides a calendar for events taking place in those three towns and the outlying areas. As such, it is NOT just a "blog," but a website whose main goal is to tell others about what is available in these towns AND allow them to respond to articles posted regarding local news and events. Therefore, I thought adding the link to the Fort Mill, Tega Cay and Indian Land pages was completely acceptable and did not break the rules for external links.

I am asking for the link(s) to be reinstated to the Fort Mill, SC page. After adding the link to Wikipedia I received many emails from readers who found the website via that link and stated an appreciation for the information my site provides. Fort Mill is a town that is a popular relocation destination, and ScoopMill seeks to help educate potential newcomers, and those merely researching the area, to know what it is like. It also provides an outlet for current residents to have a place to connect and comment on local news.

Please reconsider based on this added information, and let me know if I may add the link back to the Fort Mill, SC information page.

Thank you for your consideration, Jane, editor of ScoopMill.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaynee7283 ( talk • contribs) 00:06, 17 March 2009 (UTC) reply

Personally I think your website is great and I've bookmarked it. But Wikipedia has strict rules against using Wikipedia to promote another website, which is known as linkspamming. I left your link in Fort Mill, South Carolina the first time you added it [1], because it was a gray line judgment call as to whether the link made a positive contribution to the article subject. Then the same link showed up in two articles, which is definitely link spamming so I removed those links immediately.
After the same link then showed up in three articles via an anonymous IP address other editors got involved. They pointed out the rules about External Links and made a unanimous group decision that all the links should be removed, including the one on the Fort Mill article. I simply executed the consensus decision of multiple editors.
Then somebody else (not me) added ScoopMill.com to the spam watchlist. The action taken is here. I'm not familiar with the spam watchlist or how it works.
The only suggestion I can make for you is to submit a Requests for Comment. I wouldn't get your hopes up but you can plead the case that the website does cover news in Fort Mill and deserves to be included as a resource on the subject of the article. But absolutely be upfront that you are the owner of the website. If others decide from the RfC to allow the link, be sure to update this conversation so everybody knows what the deal is.
-- Fife Club ( talk) 01:19, 17 March 2009 (UTC) reply
All I can think is that the anonymous links were done on my other computer, without me logging in (which would be weird - doesn't Wikipedia require you be logged in to add stuff?). In that case I would have added the link to Indian Land and Tega Cay (which are two areas also address at ScoopMill - but can't think of what that third place would be. Maybe York County (of which those three towns are a part)? In any event, I did see the discussion going on at a conversation called "Village Pump (Policy)" and posted something there, but I'll definitely check out the Requests for Comments page as well. Thanks for your quick response. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaynee7283 ( talk • contribs) 13:55, 17 March 2009 (UTC) reply

Lancaster County

Does Fort Mill really extend into Lancaster County? I've looked through maps of both counties and I've yet to find any map that shows Fort Mill stretching into Lancaster. Could someone then verify with a map that Fort Mill has territory in Lancaster County, please? If no one can, I will then proceed to remove all references to Lancaster in the article. Inkan1969 ( talk) 14:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC) reply

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