User talk:Mambg

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's 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! -- Siobhan Hansa 00:14, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Mambg. There were a number of problems with the additions. And these problems are typical of users adding links to sites they are connected with. Which is one of the reasons we have a guideline against this (see external links guideline).

The systematic adding is problematic, especially given that you aren't making any other edits to the encyclopedia (see our spam guideline). Also you were adding a link to the homepage of your site to articles for which the connection was quite tenuous. The most illustrative case was your addition to bamboo. Links should be directly relevant to the subject of the article. Green building techniques were not a significant part of that article so a link even to a page specifically about bamboo use in green building would have been a stretch (if you want to inform users about this, add a section to the article rather than a link to another site) but a link to a general home page was particularly inappropriate.

I hope this provides some context for the link removal. We welcome editors adding content, especially when they have expertise in the subject area. I encourage you to consider adding to content to some of our articles instead. A well sourced paragraph on the use of blue jeans as insulation could be quite informative for our readers.... -- Siobhan Hansa 13:10, 13 May 2007 (UTC)