User talk:Helens39

March 2013
Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses, such as you did in the article Barra. Wikipedia is not the "Yellow Pages". If you want to list a company for potential customers to find, please consider alternative outlets. Thank you. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 14:57, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Barra. 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 page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 16:20, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

"Wikipedia is not the "Yellow Pages" "Please do not use Wikipedia to promote businesses"

Tourists can also go sea kayaking[16] or power kiting,[17] 16^ "Clearwater Paddling". Archived from the original on 9 May 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2008. 17^ "Barra Power Kiting". Archived from the original on 1 April 2008. Retrieved 29 March 2008.

the Hebridean Toffee Factory in Castlebay is one of the few manufacturers on Barra.[21] 21^ "Heart Hebrides Toffee". Archived from the original on 29 July 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2008.

Would you care to explain how these site are allowed to be "Promoted" and yet i am not allowed to post links relating to relevent issues on the Isle of Barra.

Short answer they're not. But I only caught your addition on my watchlist - theirs were their before I started watching and didn't notice them - I'll remove them as well as yours as soon as I can. BTW you should sign your messages with 4 tildes ~ Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 17:18, 27 March 2013 (UTC)