User talk:Michael MacLauchlan

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Hello, Michael MacLauchlan, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Maglev, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. 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! DAJF (talk) 14:06, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
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Please help me with... I posted my first link into Wiki -- yay, but was informed it may be considered advertising. It's not advertising. What should I do?

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....Hello, Michael MacLauchlan, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit ... to the page Maglev, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: ... from DAJF

Michael MacLauchlan (talk) 14:37, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * The link redirects me (a UK user connecting with Firefox) to here, a page which has nothing to do with the subject of the article. This may be why DAJF saw it as advertising. Perhaps a user must be logged in or connecting from a particular place to get directed to the right place, but if that is true, then it's not a good link to put in the External Links section because an ordinary Wikipedia user wouldn't get directed to the right place. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 15:06, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi, correction... While searching for the correct link for the link mentioned above, I found that the link you added and the link I was referring to aren't the same thing. The link you added was, according to the diff, this one. I was mistaken in saying that you added this link from FSU. I wouldn't call that advertising, but the link doesn't provide much value to the article. It's ultimately a list of Maglev related things in blog form, which doesn't appear to be written by a recognised authority (see WP:LINKSTOAVOID). In editing articles, we must be careful so that the articles don't become a link farm. The amount of external links in an article should be kept minimal. This is probably why DAJF removed your link with four others. --BurritoBazooka (talk) 16:18, 17 October 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the info. The link I tried to post on Wiki does indeed refer to other maglev images/ideas/sites, including FB maglev discussion sites. If its not helpful, I'm ok withdrawing my attempts to post the link: Here:  http://maglev.springsinformationservices.com/maglev/


 * Michael MacLauchlan (talk) 16:33, 17 October 2015 (UTC)

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