User talk:Hivementality

October 2007
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, which is clearly what your link was intended to do. Please familiarize yourself with the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations; there are thousands of artists who would love to promote their work using Wikipedia, but that is NOT the purpose of Wikipedia. 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 rather than re-adding it. If you continue to re-add the link, on this or other pages, you may be blocked. Dyanega 21:18, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

journalist?
Hi. You wrote: "Okay sorry about that. But as an investigative researcher and journalist I am a resource of information." You should be aware that WP does not allow people to promote their own research, or treat their own work as a source of information: see the no original research policy for details. If you are a journalist that self-publishes, that is also a violation of WP policy (see self-published sources). In order to get something you have written inserted into WP, without running the risk of violating self-promotion policies, it needs to be published via a reputable media outlet; your own website or blog is NOT considered a proper source. There are many, many policies set forth in WP regarding this sort of thing, and it really does pay to become familiar with them. You may still be able to contribute, and I hope you will, but not in the way that you apparently expect. Dyanega 00:47, 16 October 2007 (UTC)