User talk:MugsysMom

August 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added to the page Unschooling do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. &mdash; Indon ( reply ) &mdash; 13:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Unschooling. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. &mdash; Indon ( reply ) &mdash; 13:46, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Please do not use styles that are unusual or difficult to understand in articles, as you did to Unschooling. There is a Manual of Style that should be followed. Thank you. Please do not add again external links anywhere in the text, except in the External Links section with the guideline from WP:EL. &mdash; Indon ( reply ) &mdash; 14:03, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- SiobhanHansa 13:09, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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Hi MugsysMum. Thank you for leaving me a message. I don't believe I used the phrase "intentionally spamming" (and if I did I apologize - that would not have been appropriate). My message was that you are adding links against our guidelines. You continued to do so despite the messages above from Indon asking you not to. That such action is considered spamming on Wikipedia (see our spam guidelines). And that we'd really like you to stop.

We do not consider sites to be inappropriate simply because they are from a commercial source (though a site whose only use to a reader is a for-fee services is almost certainly inappropriate), nor do we consider sites to be appropriate because they are not commercial. While a few external links can enhance an article we are not a portal or web directory and we should only have a few of the best, most well respected and authoritative sites on any page. See our external links guidelines and parts of our what Wikipedia is not policy.

In general, editing Wikipedia simply to post the same websites to multiple articles is not going to be looked on favorably. External links do little to fulfill Wikipedia's mission to be a GFDL encyclopedia and promotional addition can compromise our policy on maintaining a neutral point of view, so we discourage people from simply coming here to list links. It would be great if instead of simply adding links to external websites you would consider adding well sourced content to our articles. See our welcome page for more on contributing.

I hope this makes some sense and better explains what the messages above do not. If you have more questions please feel free to leave me a message here or on my talk page (and yes - you left the message on my page just fine.) -- SiobhanHansa 21:56, 14 August 2007 (UTC)