User talk:John Mock

John---welcome to Wikipedia, I hope you enjoy contributing. It appears from your website that you have a great deal of knowledge about South Asia. However I want to advise you about one aspect of how Wikipedia works. If you simply add external links (especially across a wide range of articles) your additions will likely be reverted as "spam". The philosophy behind this is explained here. What is much better is to contribute actual content to articles, with references to verifiable sources. (Ideally, not your own website, since that makes it hard to distinguish from original research. However, if your website is the best source, it is unlikely to get reverted.) Again, welcome, and I hope you stay around. -- Spireguy 20:28, 15 November 2006 (UTC)