User talk:Jazzbird77

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I have removed the links you've been adding to www.israelcatholic.com. They're not appropriate on these articles. -- Jheald 13:48, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Jazzbird, if it's all right with you, I prefer to talk on Wikipedia talk pages, like this one, rather than by email.

You wrote:
 * Hello. I don't understand why you have removed the links to www.israelcatholic.com that I have posted on a few wikipedia pages. This website is entirely relevant to those articles (Zionism, Jewish-Christians, etc...) and would be of interest to many people. Why should this link be considered spam? Why the censorship? 

It seems to me that this is primarily a missionary site, trying to persuade Jews to convert to Christianity. It does not have any obvious academic credentials, or any apparent organisational status with any apparent official church structure. Therefore Wikipedia would in general not consider it either a reliable source nor notable in its own right.

So, does the site contain "meaningful, neutral, accurate content", which is "directly relevant to the subject of the article", and which represents "a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article"? Or are these links simply "mainly intended to promote a website, product or services" ?

Let's look at some ot the cases, where you have added it:

-- are you seriously suggesting, on any rational basis, that your site would make the top million most notable websites on any of these subjects ? -- an article specifically on the particular word phrase, which your website doesn't discuss -- your website doesn't say anything about that Church in Israel -- review of a historic debate specifically within the Lutheran and Calvinistic Protestant churches. -- so, you've got some opinions on these subjects. Well, as the brutal phrase has it: "Opinions are like arseholes. Everyone's got one". Is there anything at all that makes yours distinctively worthy of linking to from Wikipedia? As far as I can see, no.
 * Christianity, Roman Catholic Church, Zionism, Christianity and Judaism
 * Judeo-Christian
 * Roman Catholicism in Israel
 * Law and Gospel
 * Supersessionism, Messianic Judaism, Jewish Christians

I'm sorry if that's being blunt. I don't mean to stamp on your feelings, but the bar for including external links on Wikipedia has to be set high. Also, if you have a particular connection with this website, you should maybe consider Wikipedia's guidelines on Conflict of Interest. Your contributions are wanted, but it might be better for you to edit something completely different.

Sorry if that's making me the bearer of unwelcome news. Best regards, Jheald 16:15, 13 November 2007 (UTC)