User talk:Apassion4cooking

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:02, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
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January 2012
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 constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 04:02, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: Blocking of External Link to Grammy's Kitchen
Re your message: Your links were removed per Wikipedia's external link guidelines. For articles on basic subjects such as articles on cooking, the usual practice is to not add external links unless they provide information that can not be included in article itself. This is done to make sure that Wikipedia does not favor one particular site over another from the hundreds, if not thousands, of sites available on the subject of cooking. However, if you feel that the site should be listed on a particular article, you can discuss the matter on the relevant article's talk page and get a consensus from interested editors on if the link should be included. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 06:47, 22 January 2012 (UTC)