User talk:Mroehrman

July 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. ElKevbo (talk) 05:12, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

It might also be a good idea to review our conflict of interest guidelines before continuing to add links to a newspaper for whom you write. ElKevbo (talk) 05:16, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. ElKevbo (talk) 05:24, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I'm an news editor, not a reporter, for the paper so nothing I've written, nor my name, appears on any of the sports pages I linked to. I have checked the guidelines for external links and the conflicts of interest pages and I believe the external links I submitted conform to all of the rules. As the largest newspaper in Kansas, I think we offer broad information on the teams and thought it would be of value to other users. Mroehrman (talk) 05:33, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Michael
 * I disagree on the value of the links and to the best of my knowledge such links are discouraged. I'm sure that your newspaper has wonderful articles that can be used as references (and many are!) and that is the appropriate way to include the information your paper collects and distributes.
 * I recommend discussing this on either the Talk pages of the articles in question or perhaps in the Talk page for our external links guidelines if you'd like to see where other editors stand; I could be wrong or in the minority.
 * (And about the potential conflict of interest: I'm sure that you know there is more to it than following rules. For editors, it should be about even avoiding the appearance of impropriety.  Of course isn't something that can (or should) be codified in a policy or set of rules and that is no reason for us to remove content or links.  But I think it's smart to embrace that idea, particularly in a world that is as well-connected as ours.) ElKevbo (talk) 05:41, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks for the clarification. Mroehrman (talk) 06:08, 15 July 2010 (UTC)Michael