User talk:OSP Editor

July 2007
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Computer networking do not comply with our guidelines for external links. 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 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. &mdash; Indon ( reply ) &mdash; 16:07, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Benchmarking. 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; 16:08, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Response
Please use articles from the journal/magazine as a source, but not a direct external link to that journal/magazine website, except if the subject of the Wikipedia article is the journal/magazine itself. Take a look at Nature (journal), and it is used in many articles as citation, but not external link directly to the magazine website. &mdash; Indon ( reply ) &mdash; 07:22, 25 July 2007 (UTC)