User talk:Oopsla

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Reply on links
Hello! The reason I removed the link was that it appeared to be to a registration-required or mailing-list service. Generally, we discourage links to "registration-required" or mailing-list sites unless they provide information which is far more reliable than any other source can provide. As the article already links to several highly-respected and extremely reliable sites, this appears not to be the case. You may find our external links guidelines helpful as to what type of links are acceptable. However, if you believe my assessment of the situation is incorrect, please let me know! Seraphimblade 08:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I see where you're coming from, but I still don't see it myself. However, what you may wish to do is discuss its inclusion at Talk:Research, the maintainers of the article might find it agreeable. Generally, it's best to discuss links before adding them. Thanks! Seraphimblade 09:11, 29 January 2007 (UTC)


 * The guys at Talk:Research do not answer. So, we have different opinions. Who can decide? Oopsla 10:27, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Reply on linking to Exploratory Research
Hi.

My view about your link is the same as Seraphimblade.

The guidelines are very clear: "A site that requires registration or a subscription should not be linked unless... it has relevant content that is of substantially higher quality than that available from any other website".

Your site is not closely relevant to the articles you're linking from, and there are plenty of alternative sources of information. IMHO, even if it didn't require registration it wouldn't be sufficiently relevant to these articles to make it suitable for inclusion.

Incidentally, if you're hoping to increase your page ranking on Google, I'm afraid that having links on wikipedia won't help because wikipedia uses a Nofollow tag to prevent this.

andy 11:39, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

31 January 2007
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Please be aware that persistent attempts to add links that are considered as spam may lead to your being blocked from editing Wikipedia

andy 20:43, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

June 2007
Please stop. If you continue to ignore our policies by introducing inappropriate pages, such as Online Academic Advisor, to Wikipedia, you will be blocked. Rackabello 13:36, 13 June 2007 (UTC)