User talk:Leighpatterson1

April 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to the page Timothy Leary has been reverted, as it appears to be unconstructive. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Katieh5584 (talk) 20:41, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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 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 guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. --Ronz (talk) 21:13, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

Too promotional
Leighpatterson1, I find the links you are adding to be overly promotional, with wikilinks to too many pages. I think a focused external link should have only one link, since the reader will be able to click on that and then, if they want to, they can surf to the larger site. Here's my version of your Timothy Leary external link:


 * Collected correspondence of Timothy Leary at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

...which is composed of this wikicode and text: *Collected correspondence of Timothy Leary at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

Here's what you put in:


 * Timothy Leary's Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

...which of course has the additional links, and was composed like this: *Timothy Leary's Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

You have also put in URLs which include a search function. Much better is to have a specific URL which goes to a specific page. For instance, you put this URL into the Diego Rivera page:


 * http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00229.xml&query=diego%20rivera&query-join=and/

...and I was able to take out the query to make it:


 * http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00229.xml

Can you please pare down your links to the essential morsel? Binksternet (talk) 21:15, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree with the above. In addition, if your only contribution to an article is to add the link, it would be best to add a quick comment on the article talk page on why you're doing so.  Otherwise, your editing pattern fits WP:SPAMMER too closely and the links will likely be removed as spam. --Ronz (talk) 21:24, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, if you could go back through your edits and format the links you added to what Binksternet shows above (removing the link to the Harry Ransom Center), it would be very helpful. --Ronz (talk) 21:27, 20 April 2009 (UTC)