User talk:Jrfray

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Hello, Jrfray, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page IRS tax forms ‎, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 18:48, 22 November 2014 (UTC)
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November 2014
Hello, I'm C.Fred. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page IRS tax forms ‎, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 18:48, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

November 2014
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to IRS tax forms. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 15:35, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

The links were to the official government form on IRS.gov. Is that inappropriate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrfray (talk • contribs) 16:05, 27 November 2014‎
 * If the article were about an individual form, then it might make sense to link to the official form (never a third-party host of the forms) at the bottom of the page in an external links section. But, we should not link to all the individual forms listed here. The article already has a link to the irs.gov website, which has a clearly labelled link at the top of that page to take readers to forms and publications. It might make sense to adjust that link at the bottom of the page to point to the relevant sub-page at irs.gov/Forms-&-Pubs - but that would be the extent of appropriate linking. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 16:16, 27 November 2014 (UTC)