User talk:LindaHill

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Please do not add promotional external links to Wikipedia. Are you linked to User talk:Marketingcubelab who was blocked earlier today?-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 18:54, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't understand why you've objected to the external link?? I researched Wikipedia and found many links for similar tourism associations (would you like me to forward examples to you? I found at least twenty on Wikipedia) before adding the link for Torbay Hotel and Tourism Association ([www.torbayhospitality.com]) which represents the tourism industry in Torbay, provides a visitor information service, funds education bursaries for hospitality students at South Devon College, organises annual tourism events in Torbay, and recently initiated a successful bid to have four Pre-Olympic Games Training Camps in Torbay approved by the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Our association was founded in 1918 at the request of the local authority (Torbay Council), and our chairman is also a local councillor. I look forward to hearing from you. Rgds, Linda.

Torbay hotels
Please do not spam wikipedia with your spam. see the spam policy. While I'm here, sock puppets (using more than one username to make the same edits) are forbidden here as well. Don't do that. Totnesmartin (talk) 19:18, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't understand why it's spam?? I researched Wikipedia and found many links for similar tourism associations (would you like me to forward examples to you? I found at least twenty.) before adding the link for Torbay Hotel and Tourism Association ([www.torbayhospitality.com]) which represents the tourism industry in Torbay, provides a visitor information service, funds education bursaries for hospitality students at South Devon College, organises annual tourism events in Torbay, and recently initiated a successful bid to have four Pre-Olympic Games Training Camps in Torbay approved by the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games. Our association was founded in 1918 at the request of the local authority (Torbay Council), and our chairman is also a local councillor. I look forward to hearing from you. Rgds, Linda. LindaHill
 * The problem is that it's a promotional site rather than an informnation service. It's all advertising. The tone of voice in the site is not to provide information as such, but to say how great it is and that people should choose a holiday there. This is against Wikipedia's neutrality policy, and against the policy on external links (number 5 on that list applies here). Hope this helps, Totnesmartin (talk) 23:07, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * See also WP:NOTDIRECTORY.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 09:07, 11 January 2009 (UTC)