User talk:24.46.192.178

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Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. Thank you. Recury 16:55, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2nd Warning

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Niagara Falls. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Nposs 18:21, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

This is your last warning. 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 their websites from appearing on Wikipedia and other sites that use the MediaWiki spam blacklist at all. Daniel Case 18:28, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] "spam" police

Those links were posted on the same day before I saw the first notice that they weren't appropriate, so thank you for the "second" and the "last" warnings about the same incident. I don't plan on posting any more links based on the first - and only necessary - notice. The rest of you can relax now.

And thank you again for presuming to know my intentions by telling me multiple times about "nofollow" tags, these links were an attempt to share our travel columns about the locations in question with potentially interested readers.

[edit] Removed links

(You left this note on my page. You are welcome to respond there, but I have posted my response here. Thanks.) "I understand that a few of the links I posted to articles were unwanted for one reason or another, however you appear to have gone through and removed all my posts without reguard to context or the other posts around it. If blindly pressing the delete key is the rule of wikipedia so be it, but I'm wondering if this gives me the freedom to remove all the links to other local websites similar to mine on wikipedia?" (unsigned comment by User_talk:24.46.192.17)

Thanks for your note. I'm sorry it appeared that I indiscriminately removed all links to your website. Please understand that the removal of the links does not reflect on the quality of your website (which appears to be very good) or the quality of your intentions (which also appear to be good.) In my opinion, and in the opinion of other editors, the links did not pass WP:External links and the way in which they were added suggested the work of a spammer (so they were reviewed quickly and deleted quickly.) Here are my reasons why I believe the links did not pass WP:EL:
  • The reviews the links led to seemed fine, but they were very short and limited in content. They really did not expand upon the content of the article significantly. They also did not have extensive additional images. In this sense, they were non-encyclopedic.
  • The addition of multiple links to the same url across multiple articles suggested that the links were being added in part to promote the website being linked (another violation of WP:EL).
You have noted that the website linked belonged to you. Linking to your own website is a violation of "conflict of interest" WP:COI, although there are ways around this (like suggesting the link on the article talk page and letting other editors decide if gets added). External links generally benefit the linked website more than Wikipedia. Adding content to the article itself is really the best way to contribute your expertise - and I hope you'll stick around to do just that. (And in regards to your closing rhetorical question - by all means feel free to remove links you feel violate WP:EL. In fact there is a project devoted to just such an endeavor: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Spam Nposs 23:58, 12 February 2007 (UTC)