User talk:Michaelfahrenheit

November 2014
Hello, I'm AVRS. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added to the page Free and open-source software‎‎, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. AVRS (talk) 10:33, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to African-American hair. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Links which are archived on archive.org are not "broken", and generic commercial blogs are unlikely to be appropriate replacements. McGeddon (talk) 18:30, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Replacing dead links with unreliable/commercial sources
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to List of models who died during their careers in the 21st century. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --McGeddon (talk) 18:45, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your attention. But, I'm just tried to fix the dead link with related source.


 * Some of the links you are "fixing" are not broken, but archived on archive.org. (In fact most links can be replaced with archived versions in this way.) Replacing such links with generic commercial blogs and other WP:RS-failing sources does not help the project. Please don't edit any more links in this way. --McGeddon (talk) 08:49, 29 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Making multiple accounts for the same purpose in the same timeframe, like and, is also not necessarily acceptable. --AVRS (talk) 11:14, 29 November 2014 (UTC)