User talk:Nominalme

July 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Forest Hills High School has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \bfacebook\.com (links: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=14063553935&ref=ts). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 18:16, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Forest Hills High School
I am an officer for the class of 1990 reunion group and we are coordinating things via a public Facebook page. We are unlikely to set up a Website for the reunion, but would like to include it in the external links section of the FHHS Wikipedia page. How can I get permission to do that? We plan on setting up a Wikipedia entry in a few months but would still want to use that link. Thanks for your reply. --http://nominalme.blogspot.com/ 19:04, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Firstly, Wikipedia is not a social network nor a directory of links. Facebook links are better avoided here. You signature is also against policy. Please see WP:CUSTOMSIG. It should not have an external link. For the article regarding the reunion, please see WP:YFA and WP:Notability. If you require more help, please see http://toolserver.org/~bjelleklang/pjirc/ and join the editors on the IRC. Make sure you join the "help channel." -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 19:16, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

helpme Thanks for your reply. The Facebook page is the official page of the reunion. It is not part of the social network site per se (meaning it is not a "person" but a page). I don't really understand the policy. What is the difference between that page and any other external link on some other page? How is making a Website page any different than posting the link to the Facebook page? The links provided are not helping me very much. I'm not understanding the context of this. It all seems pretty arbitrary. Thanks for any further information you can give me.
 * Hello. let me translate the upshot of the links. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. Though it's online, it really should be thought of in many ways as you would a printed encyclopedia. You wouldn't ask Encylopedia Brittannica to include in their latest edition an advertisement about an upcoming reunion would you? Just thinking about it shows how unencyclopedic and absurd that would be. Well, Wikipedia is a little different, because we actually can be specialized enough that we have an article on a particular high school, but the link you wish to include is nevertheless still wholly inappropriate for an encyclopedia article. The previous user point you to policies describing that Wikipedia is not be used as a directory of links, nor is it to be used as a social networking site. I wuld also point you to our external links policy, under which adding such a link would be improer on multiple grounds. So, the link should not be added to the article at all, and I suggest you target some mailings to the alums and skip Wikipedia as a place to advertise the reunion. Cheers.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:33, 21 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Ah, I was typing something similar at the same time as Fuhghettaboutit. It's probably more-or-less the same info, but I've typed it now, so I might as well add it here;


 * Hi there.


 * After much discussion, we (the community) have come up with some guidelines for external linking. Because we are inundated with spam, we though it best to stick to links that "contain further research [...] information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright". The details of what we think should and should not be linked are in External links.


 * Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, therefore we strive to provide neutral, well-referenced information on notable topics. We only cover verifiable information, hence we don't make things "famous", we just document things that are already "famous".


 * I sincerely hope that this helps to explain. If you think that our policy is wrong, please do start a discussion; the village pump would be a good place for that.


 * Please do come and talk to us live, to discuss this or any other questions.


 * I hope that you will help us to build this fantastic resource.  Chzz  ►  19:46, 21 July 2009 (UTC)