User talk:Ariannablaine

Welcome!
Hello, Ariannablaine, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for Option Grid. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome!  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   16:08, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Introduction to Wikipedia
 * The five pillars of Wikipedia
 * How to edit a page and How to develop articles
 * How to create your first article
 * Simplified Manual of Style
 * I also am interested in promoting online health education. If you are interested in developing Wikipedia articles then let's talk and I will give you a tour of Wikipedia's health content. Write me and if you like, we can meet together online with screen share and voice chat and look at things together. Thanks for trying out Wikipedia!  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   16:10, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Option Grid advertisement
Hello. You just put an advertisement for Option Grid in the article for breast cancer. I suspect this will be removed - on Wikipedia the culture is for people to share information in the articles, and not to share ideas about how to go to other places and get information. Can you imagine an Encyclopedia Britannica entry which says, "go somewhere else for information"? When I saw Option Grid I was thinking of how to actually take the information contained therein and post it directly into Wikipedia articles, or perhaps share the content somehow in a more integrated way. The Wikipedia article for breast cancer has gotten about 75,000 visitors in the last month and this is typical for so many health articles. Contact me sometime if you want to talk about collaborating to share information in accordance with Wikipedia community guidelines. Also consider asking at the Teahouse if anyone would review what you are doing - they give great feedback.  Blue Rasberry   (talk)   14:20, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Link canvassing
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:34, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I did not believe this was spamming. I have reviewed the spamming policy (and guidelines to limit external links), but don't see how this is different than the other external links already published. For example, links to MayoClinic and NIH on the ovarian cancer page. The option grids are not proprietary, are completely free for use, and are based on published scientific evidence - like WebMD or NIH sources. Could you clarify why this would still be considered spamming? Ariannablaine (talk) 14:47, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The links in the message above clarify our policies. We don't allow link canvassing, regardless of link quality. Also see WP:COI. OhNo itsJamie Talk 14:53, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I believe in your content and want it shared in compliance with Wikipedia guidelines. You have lots of options for getting more information. As I asked above, contact me if you want help or otherwise lots of other people would be willing to help if you ever asked. Thanks.  Blue Rasberry    (talk)   15:03, 23 September 2013 (UTC)