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March 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament 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.

Even billing the link as a reference, it's still there to promote a website more than provide a resource. If a bracket needs to be cited, there should be one for that purpose at the NCAA's website, or at least a text description of the game outcomes, which would provide the reference material necessary to fill in the bracket. —C.Fred (talk) 19:37, 15 March 2011 (UTC)