User talk:OCShootersNY

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. The links you added to the page Orange County, New York have been removed. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Kafziel 18:11, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Links
In reference to your email, the difference between the link to your site and the link to Orange County Choppers is that the Choppers link is an internal link; that is, it links to another Wikipedia article, not a different website. The OC Choppers article, in turn, has a link to the company's website, but only because that's what the whole article is about. There is no link to OC Choppers' website on the Orange County, New York page. (By the way, I'm not implying that you should create an article about your website just so you can post a link there; the guidelines for website notability are at WP:WEB.)

I really can't say how strict West Point is about linking to websites, but I have no particular reason to think they would be any more strict than Wikipedia. The criteria for external links are pretty tough here. Kafziel 12:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)