User talk:86.137.12.107

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[edit] Links - why I removed them

Hi. I am sorry but I have just reverted your 5 links to http://www.beautifulengland.net. In general, this kind of linking to personal sites is not encouraged here, and I am sure that if you have a look around you will find policy on this. It is (somewhat unkindly) informally referred to as "linkspam". It is not that there is anything wrong with your photos - on the contrary, I think they're great! - but that Wikipedia really can't accommodate links to personal photo collections like this. Imagine for example if everyone with nice photos of Avebury decided to link them in - you'd have 3000 links or something. Hence the tendency to discourage this. Sorry if it seems mean but it honestly does make sense for the long-term stability of the encyclopaedia. Thanks and best wishes 138.37.199.206 (talk) 14:53, 25 April 2008 (UTC)