User talk:Ckincaid77

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[edit] December 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added to the page American Revolution 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. Thank you. NeilN talk ♦ contribs 23:04, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to United Nations Security Council. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. NeilN talk ♦ contribs 23:05, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

The site you're linking to looks informative but you need link to pages discussing the article's topic rather than always linking to the home page. --NeilN talk ♦ contribs 23:12, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to John Locke. 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. Arthurrh (talk) 23:22, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

Can you please stop and take a moment to read WP:EL? The link you added to Liberalism contains a paragraph at most on the topic. If you continue this way, you will be blocked from editing. --NeilN talk ♦ contribs 23:36, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to International law, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Persistent spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing anyone from linking to them from all of Wikipedia. Arthurrh (talk) 23:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry it took me so long to respond. I have not used Wikipedia before and I couldn't figure out how to post a response until just now. I have been reading your helpful messages and linking to specific areas of our website instead of to the website as a whole. I went back and re-directed several addresses to be more specific. We don't consider it spam, because it's a university-created resource on human rights with lots of useful information. The page on Liberalism mentioned above has 4 paragraphs, an interactivity, and 3 other web links on Liberalism. Could you give me a better idea of what is considered enough content to be acceptable on Wikipedia? Also, the link I put in for International Law directly relates to a full unit on that topic, discussing international law, international human rights, the Court of Justice, international treaties, etc. I'm not sure why you consider it inappropriate. Could you clarify? This is my first time adding to Wikipedia, and I honestly am not trying to disrupt. Our website is already being used all over the world and is posted on several human rights sites, such as HREA, and being used in classrooms all over the US. I want to follow your guidelines, so would appreciate your comments.Ckincaid77 (talk) 00:15, 11 December 2007 (UTC)Ckincaid77
I'd say the best thing to read initially would be WP:EL, especially the sections on "What to link" and "Links normally to be avoided". Note for example #1 that says to void "Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article." so you really want to link from articles that you have DIRECT content about, and to a page on the website that has that information, not a homepage for example. Arthurrh (talk) 00:20, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linkspam

Hi. Please don't keep adding the same external link to lots of pages such as Bosnia and Herzegovina and Burma (and even disambiguation pages such as Bosnia). While I have no doubt that this is a useful resource, it belongs one one page at most - such as genocide, otherwise the number of potential external links in each country article is almost infinite. Please see here to see more details on what's acceptable. Cordless Larry (talk) 12:34, 18 January 2008 (UTC)