User talk:60.241.227.240

Please refrain from adding "share recommendations" links to pages such as Commonwealth Bank of Australia and other publicly listed Australian companies. It is considered SPAM. Wikipedia is NOT a repository of links, nor a crystal ball. Thankyou for your co-operation. Jpe|ob 06:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Welcome again to Wikipedia. Since I think this has come up in the past,, you probably deserve a fuller explanation of some key editing policy and guidelines at wikipedia.  Blogs are almost never allowed as sources at wikipedia, and in sensitive articles such as biographies of living persons or articles about financial investing, it would only be in very special cases would this restriction be relaxed.  Editors are also strongly discouraged from adding content they've authored as sources to the articles here, with rare exceptions, normally including the condition the author discloses their involvement and earns the consensus of other editors.  And since blogs are considered self-published content, if the editor links to blogs they've written there are automatically two strong strikes against allowing it to be cited as a source here.  This is true regardless of how well it's written, or how well supported are its claims.  And the third caution in this regard deals with the perception of linking the same website in multiple articles, whether the practice can be considered "spamming" or an attempt to boost web traffic.  Unfortunately, these policies, guidelines and widely accepted practices aren't as clear as I think they should be to occasional editors. Professor marginalia (talk) 23:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)