User talk:Jonathanfear

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. 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. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Oldelpaso 15:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. Oldelpaso 15:53, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please stop. If you continue spamming you will be blocked from editing. Oldelpaso 16:31, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Almost the right place... User talk:Oldelpaso was the page you were looking for. You may wish to review the Wikipedia guidelines on external links, spam and conflicts of interest. While it is likely you added the links in good faith, systematically adding links to the same site in a series of articles is regarded as spamming. Generally speaking, the number of external links is (or ought to be) kept to a minimum (though links to various fansites creep in over time and need cleaning out periodically). The purpose of the external links section is to include reference information which involves more depth than would be expected from an encyclopedia article (statistics for example, or a comprehensive history), rather than to act as an exhaustive list of sites about a subject, or a vehicle for increasing PageRank. Fansites, which vitalfootball appears to be an organised collection of, are not usually linked to, as they are not necessarily neutral reliable sources.


 * Of course the presence of other external links can mislead, if there are links to Sky Sports then they should probably also be removed. Keeping on top of External links sections isn't the most glamourous task (I for one would rather, say, expand a few more of the articles on List of Manchester City F.C. players), and so sometimes links that shouldn't be there stay for rather longer than they ought to, giving the false impression that they are acceptable. The BBC tends to be viewed as a bit of a special case as it carries no advertising. Oldelpaso 17:38, 13 January 2007 (UTC)