User talk:Guideed
April 2010[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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. Hobartimus (talk) 15:13, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
External links[edit]
New users only adding the same external link to multiple articles are mostly considered promotion or advertising. However an explanation and justification for adding the links is a good first step. It is important to note that there is a difference between a user who is a regular editor, who also adds some links and someone who is interested only in adding links. Since you provided an explanation I won't remove the links any more, but if you only add links and nothing else, an admin or somebody else will notice it remove them eventually. If you edit some articles add sources, fix typos or anything else there is much less chance of that happening. You have to understand that there are 1000s of users who are mass adding links to promote their website, so every regular editor is familiar with attempts like this, and you might be confused with them, if you only add links and not edit. Hobartimus (talk) 10:20, 14 April 2010 (UTC)