User talk:64.201.168.121

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[edit] August 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added to the page Gospel do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. 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.-Andrew c [talk] 23:04, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I appreciate the time you took to contact me. However, let me try to explain why your links are inappropriate. First of all, regardless your intentions, if your sole editing purpose is it go to multiple articles and add links to the same external website, this is considered 'spamming' (regardless if it is a non-profit). Second of all, external links are supposed to provide more detailed or elaborate content that could ever conceivably included in an article. The links you added were to relatively short articles that did not provide more specific or detailed content that we would expect to see in a wikipedia article. Next, the site's content is generated by it's members, which is the same thing as a blog or forum, which are basically forbidden in our linking policy. This is unpublished content, which is problematic. Furthermore, these articles do not cite sources, nor do they present themselves as being written by specific notable authorities in the field of study, which is also problematic. Furthermore, the content at these links (especially "Gospel" and "Resurrection appearances of Jesus") has some issues with Any site that misleads the reader by use of factually inaccurate material or unverifiable research. See Reliable sources for explanations of the terms "factually inaccurate material" or "unverifiable research". Please read WP:EL and I hope you will come to agree that your links are inappropriate. Generally speaking, wikipedia looks down on users whose sole purpose is to add links to off-site content. We are not a webdirectory, (go to [1] for that). If you'd like to become a productive member of wikipedia, please consider adding actual, verifiable sourced content to articles, expanding articles, copy editing, or any number of other tasks that actually improves the onsite content. Finally, if you are affiliated with the site you have been linking to, or a member, please consider reading [{WP:COI]]. It is highly discouraged to editing regarding a conflict of interest. Thanks for your consideration.-Andrew c [talk] 13:45, 16 August 2007 (UTC)