User talk:Kitchencomeon

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Hello, Kitchencomeon! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 09:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] October 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added 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. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 10:01, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

Thanks for your note. Apparently the template message I used is overly vague and too scattered in its message. It covers too much and not enough.

You added links for a web site to several articles. That certainly could be construed as spam. If the site has useful information, it would be better to use it as a source for an addition to the article (rewritten in different words to not look like a copy vio) and then cite as a source. WP:EL goes into greater detail about external links, but basically, they should not be added, even if they might be "interesting". External links should be kept to a minimum. If the information does not build the article, it should not be added and the link not added as well.

If the information at the external site is of interest, it should be added and the site cited as a source. Bearing in mind that copy and paste is out. "Rewriting in your own words" (paraphrase) is good. Hope that helps. PS, you can sign your talk page posts by placing four tilde's (~~~~) at the end. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] citing

PPS You can make inline cites by putting citation information between<ref> </ref> tags and placing {{reflist}} in the reference section. Hope that helps. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 14:08, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] external links

You've made a pretty good argument for keeping. You could try re-adding them and see if they stand. If someone else reverts them, then the next step would be a request for comment to seek consensus. Or we could set up the RfC before you re-add. Thanks for your presence of mind and willingness to discuss things. Happy editing. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 19:01, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

The link for the instructions for setting up an RfC isWp:rfc#Instructions. Cheers, :) Dlohcierekim 19:04, 13 October 2007 (UTC)