User talk:213.162.113.17

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[edit] March 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Nuts TV do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.  

Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: 'youtube\.com' (link(s): http://www.youtube.com/pidditydidigeon) . If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. an image or a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 12:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] June 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. I notice that you removed content from Goatse.cx. However, Wikipedia is not censored to remove content that might be considered objectionable. Please do not remove or censor information that is relevant to the article. You have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide images that you may find offensive. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 17:50, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

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  • Reading the talk page for that article indicates that the rules of wikipedia do not provide a definitive statement of whether that image should be included or removed. There are arguments in favour of both courses of action which are equally valid in terms of the rules. Therefore, I consider it to be a matter of judgement. My judgement is that the majority of visitors to that page will be visiting in an attempt to find out what goatse.cx is "all about" without actually seeing the image, and will be not only offended but genuinely disturbed if they do see it, so the principle of "greatest good to the greatest number" dictates its removal. The links on the page are perfectly adequate for reference purposes without the inclusion of the actual image, and I cannot see who it benefits to include the image. It is nothing to do with my own personal feelings - I freely admit that I find the image grossly offensive, but this is hardly an unusual reaction, I have seen it several times before and have now configured my browser to block it so it makes no difference to me personally whether it is included or not. 213.162.113.17 (talk) 14:09, 4 June 2008 (UTC)