User talk:Daveccoffeetime

March 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Coffee do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. Gwernol 21:40, 31 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Dave, I suggest you read our guidelines on external links which have a fuller explanation of what is and is not appropriate. First off, the fact that coffeetime is a non-commercial site isn't the point: not every non-commercial site is inappropriate any more than every commercial link is appropriate. Judging from your username I'd say there is a pretty clear conflict of interest in you adding links to a site you are affiliated with. Adding your site looks like you are mainly interested in promoting the site, not improving the Wikipedia articles concerned. Coffeetime is primarily a forum site, which is one of the "links normally to be avoided", it also doesn't seem to "provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article". Finally, since the only information on the Wiki part of your site is only relevant to readers in the UK, it doesn't represent the sort of internationally relevant information we prefer. Thanks, Gwernol 22:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)