User talk:Oreiser

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Please read the above links. I understand your point of view however:

(1) Your user account has only been used to add links to website which is considered "unhelpful". Wikipedia is not a directory of links (try submitting the link to DMOZ): there is tight editorial control over which sites get linked to (see WP:EL), bad links get put in but keep getting taken out. The main aim of Wikipedia it to improve the content on the site. People should be trying to do that not trying to add their own links.

(2) It was obviously a website you had some connection with and it is absolutely prohibited under Wikipedia policy to add links to your own site (see WP:COI). If you wish you can suggest the link on the article talk page and see if anyone else likes it enough to add it.

(3) I have looked at the site before and I feel it is too shallow to include in a major encyclopaedia article on the subject.

Hope this makes sense. --BozMo talk 09:14, 9 July 2007 (UTC)