User talk:Iconseditor

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February 2008
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.
 * Please read the policy on external links. It does not matter if a site is 'not for profit', or a 'good cause'. Links must have a high relevance to the article, or they will be removed. Wikipedia is not a directory of services, nor a link farm. Kbthompson (talk) 13:07, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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. 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 article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Kbthompson (talk) 13:08, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. Kbthompson (talk) 13:09, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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Hello,

And thanks for the contact. I'm afraid Wikipedia has very strict policies on the introducion of external links onto its webspace. Because of its open source nature, Wikipedia keeps these to an absolute minimum through guidance from its policies: Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for free advertising or promotion. I know you added your links in good faith, but as I'm sure you can imagine, concessions are rare.

That said however, your work for ICONS looks interesting, and there could be potential for mutual benefit here, perhaps for a new article on cultural icons of England? I would recommend you raise your intentions at the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject England - a userspace where contributors can discuss ideas and get feedback before implimenting them. This England-specific page would undoubtedly be the right place to go to first. I hope that helps. -- Jza84 · (talk) 13:29, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Sound advice, and thank you for taking time out to discuss the issue. If you want to add any external links you should familiarise yourself with the policy on external links and a good place to discuss the Icons site is with the England project. I'm sorry if the warnings sound heavy, but wikipedia does not accept WP:SPAMing for any reason. Kbthompson (talk) 13:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi

Thanks for the suggestions. I will raise the idea of creating a cultural icons of england article in the place you suggest. I really hadn't thought that what I was doing was spamming - perhaps I should have linked direct to the page in the ICONS site which relates to the particular object ie - Big Ben, because then it is much more obvious that it is full of rich, interesting and relevant content (http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/collection/big-ben). Hope I am writing this in the right place. Thanks Iconseditor (talk) 14:37, 12 February 2008 (UTC)iconseditor