User talk:Motomech10

Regarding edits made to Street luge
Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia, Motomech10! However, your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the link you added, matching rule proboards\d{1,3}\.com, is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. Please read Wikipedia's external links policy for more information. If the link was to an image, please read Wikipedia's image tutorial on how to use a more appropriate method to insert the image into an article. If your link was intended to promote a site you own, are affiliated with, or will make money from inclusion in Wikipedia, please note that inserting spam into Wikipedia is against policy. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! Shadowbot 19:54, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

proboards
Hi, thank you for your kind mail, I hope you don't mind me answering here. Indeed, proboards gets removed because it is a forum. Forums are not reliable, everyone can edit them. Forums are on the list in WP:EL of 'links to be avoided', and also, per WP:NOT, wikipedia is not a linkfarm. Links are not meant to tunnel people away from wikipedia, they can be used to attribute information, they can be used as a reference (also there, the reference is because then information can be checked, see WP:RS). That other links are there already is also not a reason to add more, it may even mean that other links should go as well (see WP:NOT for the policy). In general, proboards and many other forums are on shadowbots blacklist, which means they will be reverted or additions will be double checked by someone from WP:WPSPAM (we see the linkadditions on IRC - here).

I will leave you a welcome message shortly, with quite some links to policies and guidelines on wikipedia. I hope this explains, and I hope you have a nice day. See you around! --Dirk Beetstra T C 11:23, 20 March 2007 (UTC)