User talk:Lkwdpl

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. 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. Mwanner | Talk 21:24, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Adding external links
You wrote: "...the links I am adding are to professionally researched biographies on the Women in History website -- http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/ -- which is maintained by Lakewood Public Library, in Ohio. This is not a commercial or private website. [...] Please let me know if I am cleared to add these links to Wikipedia articles on these women.  (I hope I do not have to clear this with each and every article I'd like to add a link to; there are about 100 WIH biographies.)  Thank you! Lkwdpl 21:53, 2 December 2006 (UTC)lkwdpl 16:52, December 2, 2006 (UTC)


 * No, you don't have to clear adding links with me or with anyone else. You do, however, have to comply with Wikipedia's External links guidelines. Any of hundreds of editors here can and will review what you add, and if they find your additions unhelpful, they will remove them. I would urge you to read our guidelines carefully, and perhaps also WP:Spam, with the idea of possibly saving yourself needless effort.  You might want to avoid reading them as a lawyer would, looking for loopholes, as some do who are anxious to promote their sites-- those who review your additions won't be reading them that way.


 * Perhaps I can offer a few words that might help you to understand our position. First, read our Susan B. Anthony article, and then read your article on her.  Is there anything in your article that doesn't belong in ours?  If there is, then we would ask that you add any missing facts to our article, rather than adding a link to a separate article that duplicates much of the material already in our article.  Why should a reader have to read a dozen similar articles on a single subject to assemble what could be found in one, complete article?


 * I hope you will agree to add to the contents of some of our articles. We always need good editors willing to work.  If you find some articles that your pages cover much more thoroughly than ours do, by all means, add a link.  Understand, though, that your pages will be used by future editors as sources to improve our articles, eventually being moved from the "External links" section to the "References" section of the page.


 * I can all but assure you that if you choose to add links to dozens of articles here in a row, without adding content to those and other articles as you go, you will trip someone's spam radar; we get spammed pretty massively, and an editor adding dozens of external links and nothing else is exactly what a spammer looks like.


 * I hope you take this as friendly advice, and aren't too put off by it. I'm going to insert a standard welcome that you may find useful:

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