User talk:Ejsvoboda

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. Happy‑melon 18:42, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
 * That's the official warning, but in simple terms, I mean this: Wikipedia has a policy called External links, which provides some general rules about how and when links should be made in articles. The purpose of this policy is, of course, to prevent Wikipedia becoming totally buried in spam, which would ruin its reputation as a free, unbiased, and reliable source of knowledge.  To that end, external links should only be added to the article if they provide unique useful additional information.  That essentially means, content that cannot be included on Wikipedia, and cannot be found anywhere else in the world or on the net.  So for a company or organisation, a link to its official website is appropriate, because that information cannot be legitimately duplicated by Wikipedia or anyone else.  So too for the official websites of people or celebrities.  But a link to an unofficial website for a celebrity is generally not considered appropriate, since any useful information there can be easily duplicated by Wikipedia itself, let alone other fansites that abound.  In these particular instances, you are linking to a discussion forum, a "saxophone fansite" if you will, which is not a site that provides unique information that cannot be duplicated anywhere else.  In the Yanagisawa Wind Instruments article, for instance, the only external link which is unquestionably legitimate is the link to the company's official website, so I have removed all the others, not just yours.  In future, then, try to consider external links in light of these guidelines: does an external link provide a genuinely unique and useful additional resource to the page?  If not, it probably won't last long.  Happy‑melon 18:53, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcome anyway!
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