User talk:Bradley5881

February 2009
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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 if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Zeng8r (talk) 00:31, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Santa Fe College and University of Florida student housing. 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.  Horologium  (talk) 00:15, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Gainesville
(From User talk:Horologium): Not sure where to leave this message to get it to you (i tried responding to your message on my account, but i dont know how). I am trying to see why my additions were removed. For example, in Gainesville, FL, there is a print publication called Campus Talk. But for some reason, this was removed. Do I need to prove that this publication is there? It has been for 11 years. Then, I mentioned a website that is helpful to students searching for an apartment in the HOUSING sections of the schools here. I reviewed the rules and do not know why this would not apply, as it is helpful to students. Would it be better if I just mentioned the website and did not link to it? thanks in advance! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradley5881 (talk • contribs) 02:19, 16 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I removed your additions because they are not appropriate additions to the article. Campus Talk is essentially a non-notable college-town advertising circular; almost every college town has one, and none of them are really notable. It's mostly ads, with an occasional feature thrown in to justify picking it up. The housing website you are linking to is explicitly commercial in nature, and adds absolutely nothing at all to a reader's understanding of Gainesville. A couple of links to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines may be useful to help you understand why these additions have been reverted.


 * Wikipedia's policy on notability—why there isn't an article on Campus Talk, and why there shouldn't be one. Publications without articles should not be included in any lists.
 * Wikipedia is not to be used for advertising—Self-explanatory.
 * Wikipedia is not a directory, or the Yellow Pages
 * External links normally to be avoided—specifically number five on that list.
 * Advertising and conflicts of interest, (which immediately follows the previous link), explaining why this might be a CoI issue for you
 * How not to be a spammer, which is a nice summation of all of the above.


 * Don't feel unwelcome; we invite everyone to edit Wikipedia. But there are a lot of policies regarding promotional material; they have been put in place because too many people (or companies) try to use Wikipedia as a place to promote their product or service, and that is not what Wikipedia is supposed to do. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. If you wish to respond here, just click on the "edit this page" tab, just as you did with the article pages you edited. Oh, and don't forget to "sign" your posts on talk pages; just add four tildes ( ~ ) at the end of your post; that allows users to identify who is talking, and prevents SineBot from leaving you messages asking you to sign your comments.  Horologium  (talk) 12:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)