User talk:68.145.170.106

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Thank you for experimenting with the page Parables of Jesus on Wikipedia. Your test worked, and it has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. -- moe.RON talk | done | doing 00:06, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I've noticed you adding a bunch of links around wikipedia. It appears that every link is to a self-published geocities site. I urge you to read the WP:EL guidelines. It seems like you are promoting or spamming, if you will, your own personal site. However, these sorts of links are not helpful to an encyclopedia. I encourage you to please look over the guidelines on external links before adding more links. We have to keep in mind no original reserach, reliable sources and verifiability, even with external links. We are not an indescriminate collection of links. Please consider submitting your articles to be published by a more reliable source (or better yet, a scholarly journal). Thanks for your consideration.--Andrew c 00:10, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

In response from your message on my talk page, I was about to write pretty close to what Andrew c says above. I will also mention that WP:EL mentions that when dealing with your own site, be it self-published or your company, it is generally accepted to first bring the page to light on the talk page of the page your wish to have it added to. Then, users who contribute to the page can discuss it and decided whether to add it as a reference/external link. -- moe.RON talk | done | doing 02:04, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
In response to your request ("users who contribute to the page can discuss it and decided whether to add it as a reference/external link"), I did just that for all the links I proposed.Bernard Muller