User talk:Anna.george

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Linkspam/Advertising
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Hardy Boys 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

Anna.george, posting links to a bookstore is not appropriate - it's a form of advertising, and I'm afraid it's not allowed. You are more than welcome to make edits that add content about the Hardy Boys, or to correct punctuation and grammar - that kind of thing - just not advertise a particular bookstore. Thanks, Ricardiana (talk) 17:19, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Linkspam/Advertising
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Hardy Boys. 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. Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Nancy Drew. 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.

Hi, Annageorge. Copying and pasting the same sentence into lots of articles in order to promote a company is not really proper. I've reverted your edits to Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys for that reason. If you have a reliable source that you can cite, that's a different matter. Otherwise, it's just advertising. Best, Ricardiana (talk) 14:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Agatha Christie. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — SpikeToronto (talk) 17:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Linkspam Query
I received the following query from Anna George, and will endeavor to answer it as best I can. However, since others are far more capable of providing the answers she seeks, I have also placed the query here. It is as follows:

The first part of your enquiry, regarding information contained in Agatha Christie that is incorrect, is easy enough: Any information in an article that is incorrect should be either removed or corrected. Simple enough.

As for the second part of your question, many wikiarticles on specific books provide a publication history. For an example, see here. You will note, though, that a publication history, whilst trying to provide a complete account of all published versions of a work, does not provide external links to either the publisher or booksellers selling particular versions of a work. Notwithstanding this, a wikieditor may input the ISBN of a particular publication, which can have the effect of taking the reader to booksellers selling that particular version of the work in question. Direct links to the publisher or booksellers, however, are considered linkspam and the editors inserting such links are considered to have a conflict of interest. You should familiarize yourself with Wikipedia’s policies on advertising links at WP:LINKSPAM and conflicts of interest at WP:COI; you will find most of your answers there. — SpikeToronto (talk) 18:11, 2 September 2009 (UTC)