User talk:Cathsmith

June 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively 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 for advertising or promotion. 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. MrOllie (talk) 18:22, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

July 2009
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. MrOllie (talk) 23:54, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I didn't realise and misunderstood your second message - but there are lots of commercial sites linked to Wiki pages, so this doesn't seem like a level playing field. Do you want people to remove links to commercial sites when editing?Cathsmith (talk) 12:04, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * If you see a link that you believe is inappropriate, feel free to remove it or start a discussion on it on the article's talk page. Many links have not yet been reviewed and may be inappropriate despite the fact that they are presently on a wikipedia article. See here. - MrOllie (talk) 12:20, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for reply and information.

I have deleted some from related sections, but would like some clarification please. I write and illustrate British Sign Language publications and would like to add further content of text and drawings to these pages - is this possible without infringing your rules on links and self-promotion? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cathsmith (talk • contribs)
 * If you want to cite your own material, it would be best to list the material on the talk page of the article first, and let some neutral third party decide if it should go into the article or not. You can use the Request edit tag to attract some attention if the article in question is a low traffic one. See this guideline for more discussion of the issue. - MrOllie (talk) 22:12, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply - did you remove the contribution I made yesterday to the British Sign Language page - 'Simultaneity and sign production'? I see that it's been removed, but can't understand why that would infringe your rules, as it was a fair contribution with reference?

May 2010
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. MrOllie (talk) 11:42, 31 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm sorry, but one of the links in this section is to http://www.british-sign.co.uk/ which is a commercial website, and so I thought there had been a change in policy.

Can you advise please? Many thanks

July 2010
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Every single time I have tried to add or change anything to improve your pages, you change it back to what was originally there and I really don't understand why you do this, or who you allow to put information on, as you clearly only allow certain permitted changes.

In the Two-handed manual alphabets, you had a link thus.... http://bda.org.uk/ for the 'British Sign Language font' - which is not available on this link. I changed this to http://www.deafbooks.co.uk/BDA-Fingerspelling-font_AQ8A4.aspx where the font is freely available to download - and this has been changed, yet again, back to the bda page where there is no font to download and this has happened several times now. I really don't know why you are doing this or how you expect the pages to develop if you continually block contributors such as myself. Cathsmith (talk) 09:25, 8 August 2010 (UTC)