User talk:MatthewHirtes

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Hello, MatthewHirtes, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 23:54, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
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La Gomera
Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for your contribution to the La Gomera article. However, the news feature you linked to is concerned only with the aftermath of a specific event in a specific region of the island, which is not mentioned in the article, and therefore fails test number 13 in the "Links normally to be avoided" section of Wikipedia's external links guidelines, and I have removed it from the page. Also, in general, external links are no substitute for Wikipedia content, so could I suggest that if you have an interest in the subject of the Valle Gran Rey fires of 2012, that you might consider expanding the most relevant article (perhaps Valle Gran Rey) to include a section about the fires (using newspaper reports as references), or even write a new article about the event? Feel free to ask for help any time, and don't worry too much about correct layout etc; chances are somebody else will come along and clean up any mistakes. Cheers! Rwxrwxrwx (talk) 23:54, 1 October 2012 (UTC)