User talk:24.225.129.220

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[edit] http://www.affairsorganizer.com, http://www.seinfeldthemovie.com and other related external links

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your edits solely to add links to related websites appear to breach our policies and guidelines. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page and gain consensus from other editors before reinserting it. You can take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you have any questions please feel free to leave a message for me at the bottom of my talk page. Thank you. -- SiobhanHansa 14:30, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to advance health care directive. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. -- SiobhanHansa 15:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)


This article is 100% SUBSTANCE and ZERO percent promotion. The point is to illustrate in raw and personal terms, as opposed to a clinical discussion , why a living will is so important. The link is to a free 501(c)(3) resource for state-by-state advance health care directive forms. Also, the article is in a noncommercial section "Free e-Guides" containing ONLY free substantive articles. The job of finding inappropriate links is an important one, but you're on the wrong track in deleting this link - the article delivers genuine value on the exact topic it's associated with. By the way, About.com is a commercial web site owned by the New York Times Company and filled with TONS of ads, yet you seem to think their link is appropriate, yet it offers virtually no new content (while my article offers meaningful new content). Your efforts here are valuable, but misplaced.
Wikipedia's definition of spam is based on how a link is added - not what the content of the link is. Since Wikipedia's mission is to generate an open licensed encyclopedia, links are generally the least valuable thing you can add to an article - consider adding content rather than simply promoting another website. I disagree that the link is particularly useful from an encyclopedic perspective. If you believe the link is useful - propose it on the article's talk page and see if other editors think highly enough of it to add it. In the mean time:
This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from all of Wikipedia. -- SiobhanHansa 03:59, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Grief

Welcome to Wikipedia. The link to your article has been removed from Grief. Again. Please read the conflicts of interest and external links policies. Please pay special attention to the section that says that if you run the website, then you personally should not be putting the links into any article. Instead, you should go to the talk page and explain to independent editors why you want the link included. Then they get to make the decision.

If you take a look at the talk page for Grief, you'll see that your website has already been considered and rejected. Please do not add your website to that article again. If you disagree with the decision, then feel free to explain your view on the talk page. I suggest starting that discussion with an explanation of what information on your website is directly about grief, as opposed to ideas that might be helpful to a person who is dealing with a loss. A good rule of thumb is that external links should be useful to a student who's writing a paper for school, not to a "patient" or person who's directly affected by the situation. Thanks, WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)