User talk:DaveLlewellyn

February 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Dizzee Rascal 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. Rodhull andemu  01:45, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Hey User:Rodhullandemu, NovaFM is an online music portal like myspace.com and the link you refer to linked through to the Dizzee Rascal artist page on NovaFM. I think this is a great resource for people who want more information and great content on Dizzee. Please let me know your thoughts! DaveLlewellyn (talk) 01:57, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
 * First, we only link to external sites that include information that would not be provided if the article was a Featured Article, i.e. among the best of our content and meeting the most stringent criteria. Another consideration is that Wikipedia, being an encyclopedia delivering free content, should not be seen to promote artists either directly or indirectly. This is covered here. It is difficult to resist the conclusion that you are promoting the NovaFM website, which again, is not our function. If you take a look around, we only link to official MySpace pages for artists, and to officially endorsed fansites- or should, because there are so many people trying to push their own websites and bands on here that it is a mammoth task trying to keep it in check; however, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to stay within our principles. Hope that helps. Rodhull  andemu  02:07, 9 February 2010 (UTC)