User talk:Jonnysteel

May 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page ASDA do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Gwernol 11:52, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Tesco.com. 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 attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Thank you. Gwernol 11:53, 29 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The problem with your links is they only serve to promote this particular shopping service, they don't enhance the articles you added them to. The purpose of Wikipedia is to create verifiable encyclopedia articles. Its possible that an article on mysupermarket.co.uk might be appropriate (if you could show it was sufficiently notable). But simply adding this as an external link to these articles is promotional spam, I'm afraid. Gwernol 12:03, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Now I understand. Sorry about that Gwernol. I'll try making a mySupermarket page. Please let me know what you think.