User talk:Cocktailsguide

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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 in articles. 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! A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Dirk Beetstra T C 23:50, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
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I'm not understanding why I recieved this message. I have a legitimate website with legitimate content that I am linking to Wikipedia. I am not spamming. I feel that with recipes of any kind there are many variations of those recipes and readers should be able to explore those variations of the same recipes. I have also noticed that sites similar to mine such as Drinkboy, CocktailDB, etc are allowed to add their external links, why am I condemned for posting the same content (although maybe a variation of the recipe) as those websites? --Cocktailsguide 00:54, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, Cocktailsguide. Please give me a moment to go over all the information presented. I'll have a reply for you shortly. —Xhantar Talk 00:10, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I've had a look at the link you've added to the Long Island Iced Tea article and tend to disagree with Dirk Beetstra's message above. The website you've linked to has informational content that is relevant to the subject of the article, it doesn't try to promote or sell a specific product that has to do with the article, and the link wasn't added for the purpose of trying to promote the website it links to. It is, however, always preferable to add content to an article rather than simply linking to other websites. Beetstra might, of course, have his own reasons for disagreeing with all this. As such, I would suggest posting a message to his talk page to explain why you don't agree and try to understand why he feels the link could be considered as spam. Alternatively, you can post to the article's talk page and ask for other editors' opinions in order to reach consensus. Hope this helps! Feel free to reply here if you have any more questions. —Xhantar Talk 01:06, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Hi, I'm one of the contributers to the cocktails articles. The site you linked to is primarily commercial in nature, since the advertisements on the page are larger than the actual content, and the content is only a recipe with no encyclopedic information.  If you would like to have these about.com pages considered for inclusion, please add a comment on the List of cocktails talk page.  Drinkboy and CocktailDB both have lots of information and no advertisements, which is why they are consistently linked to.  Philvarner 07:20, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I missed your earlier question. I will explain this a bit further.
 * The site you were linking to contains a lot of advertising, which may be objectable per WP:EL, and you only added links. They were hence removed per WP:SPAM and WP:NOT.  since this is a new account, I decided to add a welcome message.
 * It may be that the links you add do indeed provide good info, and are in line with WP:EL (it is of course better to use them as a reference), in that case I suggest you to discuss that on the talkpage, or contact an appropriate wikiproject.
 * Hope this explains. Hope to see you around.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 10:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I completely understand the issue. I am a new user, obviously, and am trying to get a feel for the system. As I become more familiar with WP I intend to add to the article content, the links I've added are only a "test" per se of the system. I also understand that the amount of advertising on About.com is more than some of the other cocktail sites. However I have no control over that, I am simply the content contributor. I will take all of these comments to thought and keep it in mind for future contributions to WP. Thank you all. Cocktailsguide 16:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)