User talk:Alp1776

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Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. JNW 22:50, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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Hi Alp1776,

Thanks for your message. I don't claim to be an exhaustive editor when it comes to deleting external sites that I think are not appropriate links--often it's the most recent changes that catch my eye, as was the case here. Often these links were added to articles which already linked to other biographies, so these extra links look superfluous. And when added en masse, it gives the appearance, justified or not, that a web site, in this case for a commercial entity (which happens to sell very fine artwork), is being plugged. In several cases I replaced the commercial links with biographical entries from museum sites, where a product is not quite so obviously being sold, all of which I noted in the edit summaries. Finally, I think it says somewhere in WP:EL that arguing that the presence of other questionable links is beside the point--if you think they don't belong, please revert them, too. If the biography can use a good scholarly link, please add one from a non-commercial source. I'd be grateful. JNW 23:45, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

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Your article submission Mills


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