User talk:Benjo71

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Wage do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection 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, 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.

You've been adding a lot of links to the Riksbank. Keep in mind that Wikipedia is not a billboard. Please only add links that are directly related to the article topic. If you feel information on the Riksbank site is relevant to the article, try including that information into the article using the site as a reference.
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/ Mats Halldin (talk) 12:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Riksbank

Thanks for your comments. The links are relevant and important, since they add a historical viewpoint. The Riksbank database (the Riksbank is the Swedish central bank) contains data on several different fields: inflation, stock exchange, interest rates, state loans, wages, exchange rates, bond markets, banking, etc. The database is therefore relevant for various topics.

Yes, I'm living in Stockholm and I've started an article about Södra Bankohuset, so I know what Riksbanken is. Its an excellent resource with a long history. However, as far as I can tell, it only offers information related to Sweden, and most of the articles where you added those links are not exclusively about Sweden. If you have a look at your contribution history, you'll notice I didn't remove links you've added in articles related to Sweden, such as Sveriges Riksbank and History of Sweden. Just imagine what Currency would look like if every site offering information about currencies would be included there.

The National Bank of Sweden is an excellent resource, feel free to use it as a reference to improve articles, but avoid excessively adding external links to series of articles, its a poor editing habit.

Again, welcome to Wikipedia and don't let me intimidate you from contributing to the encyclopaedia. If you need any help related to Wikipedia, please feel free to drop a question on my talk page.

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/ Mats Halldin (talk) 13:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

But you are wrong concerning the currency. The exchange rates of currencies reported in Sweden is not exclusively Swedish information. These exchange rates can be used to calculate so-called cross-exchange rates. For example, the Riksbank data base is one of few sources concerning the exchange rates between the Hamburg and Amsterdam in the 18th century (for some years it is even a better source than the Hamburg and Amsterdam exchanges themselves).