User talk:HellsKitchenCarl

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, 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. Maralia (talk) 04:38, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

I love ships, and I'd love to see old United States brought back to her former glory, but slapping links to the yahoo group on any article related to the US merchant marine is not productive. I encourage you to participate in improving articles here; I can personally direct you towards many merchant ship articles in need of work, and you're welcome to join WP:SHIPS as well. Please use your love of ships to get involved rather than to push an agenda, however noble it may be. Maralia (talk) 04:46, 20 January 2008 (UTC)