User talk:Getoihog

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. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. Thank you. OhNo itsJamie Talk 18:39, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello and thank you for contacting me. I really appreciate your effort in assuring that wikipedia retains its high quality of information. However, allow me to argue why the external links that I have added are not spam. First, let me assure you that I know that all links in Wikipedia are nofollow links and therefore I would not have added those links if I didn't think that are adding significant value to the article. Regarding the specific beach pages, I added those external links because these pages on beachionary.com have additional information such as more photos, more information about the beach (whether it has sand or rocks, people can do water sports, the water quality, umbrellas, live weather information etc.) that the respective Wikipedia pages do not provide. Regarding the Beach page on Wikipedia, I believe that someone that is interested in reading this page would most probably also be interested in looking for more information in a website that, to the best of my knowledge, has the largest number of registered beaches. So, my only intention in adding those links was to add value to these Wikipedia articles and not to promote any product (which I knew that cannot be promoted through Wikipedia anyway -- due to the nofollow rule). I am looking forward to hearing from you. Thank you. Getoihog (talk) 09:08, 24 January 2012 (UTC)


 * If you continue to add the links, you will be blocked, end-of-story. OhNo itsJamie Talk 16:35, 24 January 2012 (UTC)