User talk:209.177.33.66

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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 as we drive for print or DVD publication; see the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. jnothman talk 03:16, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Hi newbie, I left a message on the user's talk page with which you added those links. Yes, it was a prefab message, and may not have correctly applied to your intent in adding these links. It seemed to me that your use of Wikipedia at the time was not particularly adding content to the articles you edited. It merely seemed like external link spamming, a form of advertisement. Even if it were not intended as advertisement, it is notable that Wikipedia is NOT a directory of links and not every relevant link needs to be included in every article; indeed, external links should generally contain content, and should generally not be a page about a book which contains content. Take a look at Wikipedia:External links to see what sort of thing should be included under external links sections.
Finally, at the time that I removed your links, the page that I found when following the link was a placeholder page set up with the purchase of the domain, it seems, and not a link to the publisher at all. This means that while you could see the page, a change in DNS information hadn't yet made it to me. In retrospect, this further indicates that the web site has only gone up in the past 3 days, meaning that you are not adding the site to Wikipedia for the sake of Wikipedia, but rather seem to be a creator and advocate of that web site, adding it to advertise the site and most likely to increase its traffic and Google Pagerank. I thus still hold that this is link spam.
jnothman talk 10:10, 25 February 2006 (UTC)