User talk:Akin67

Welcome[edit]

Welcome!

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May 2009[edit]

Dear MrOllie and ZimZalaBim, I did place several links today on several pages. However, the links I placed were to an authoritative site with licensed data that I cannot post on Wikipedia due to copyright restrictions. The links I placed were to pages very relevant to the entry on Wikipedia. For example I placed a link to page that lists all local offices of the Centers for Disease Control from the Pandemic page on Wikipedia. The site I linked to (BuzzFile) is completely free, has no advertising and all users have access to 16 million authoritative entries. Additionally I placed a link to All Museums in Manhattan from the Wikipedis Manhattan entry. Again, is this really spam? Would users who are visiting Wikipedia Manhattan page not be interested in that? The very same types of links I posted are present on other pages and not being removed. And many to sites that have advertising. I will not post any more links, but can you kindly tell me what I did wrong?

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Aziz

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, 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 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. MrOllie (talk) 19:06, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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 the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. 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. ZimZalaBim ^talk 19:43, 7 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]