User talk:Ravens326

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Ravens326! 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! WLU 00:42, 31 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] Adding external links

Hi, and thank you for your contributions. Rather than hit you with a templated warning, I thought I would just ask you nicely not to add external links to articles, especially with an edit summary like 'Added external link, do not revert'. WP:EL explains in detail why we are not looking for external links, in general. Far better if you can summarise the information in the link, and use the link as a reference, if it satisfies WP:RS, our policy on reliable sources. Let me know if I can be any help to you. --John 03:07, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] October 2007

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Iceland. 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 policy 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Your link is being removed because it appears to be a blog or something similar, which are specifically prohibited by our External links guidelines (#12). You can be blocked for repeated spamming. WLU 07:00, 31 October 2007 (UTC)