User talk:Blancarro

September 2010
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 to this encyclopedia. Thank you.  MrOllie (talk) 21:34, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Dear Mr. Ollie. I can't respond on your talk page. I've registered and followed your instructions to no avail, so I'm responding here. I do not think this link violates the letter or spirit of Wikipedia's policies. Shareable is a nonprofit with a staff of professional writers. There is no advertising. There is no financial incentive for it to have this link. And the link probably sends just a tiny trickle of traffic. The sole reason for the link is that it offers a public information service directly relevant to the article and to those who read it. Shareable is the only online magazine that concentrates solely on sharing as a practice. It has scores of how to articles, helpful resources, and news about new ways to share. Really, how is this spam? This is straight up, nonpartisan helpful information. Can you please restore the link. Blancarro (talk) 16:57, 9 September 2010 (UTC)blancarro
 * We generally do not link to blogs or online magazines per WP:EL. For profit or non profit status has no bearing on that. In a nutshell, we call things spam when they have been spammed. - MrOllie (talk) 17:20, 9 September 2010 (UTC)