User talk:86.17.167.32

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Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --TeaDrinker 20:45, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. A guideline on external links can be found at Wikipedia:External links. My main concern is that the links you're adding seem to be geared toward selling books or other products. In general, links to bookstores should not be included in Wikipedia, see links to be avoided number 4 and number 8. You are quite correct that such links do accumulate in articles; there are too few people removing them. I will look over the links in the articles I removed your link from (I was only checking new links added, not reviewing all links). Feel free to contact me again if you have any questions or I can be of any help. Thanks again for the work on Wikipedia. --TeaDrinker 23:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I have gone through the sites which immediately looked commerical. Feel free to let me know (or remove them yourself) if you find others. Incidentally, I noticed you left a note for User:Searchlit. That editor was not involved in removing links; in fact s/he had been adding links to articles and also was wondering what the policy was. I have left a note on User_talk:Searchlit since your message may be somewhat confusing to him/her. Feel free to contact me again if you have any questions or concerns. --TeaDrinker 23:40, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
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