User talk:Peterfrei

Promotional website/spam notice
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Holland, Massachusetts. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Ultimately we want to make Wikipedia a professional and welcoming place for constructive content, however you have added this same external link as its own section numerous times over an extended period of time. The article has been added to a vandalism watchlist and further administrative intervention may be taken if these edits persist. Thank you. Simtropolitan (talk) 00:31, 8 September 2015 (UTC)  Not so fast,  you may for personal reasons do not like the link. However, there is nothing inappropriate about the link to the Holland Blog and the link, contrary to your personal opinion does not violate any policies. The Wikipedia page outlining "External Links" has a policy about links to Blogs, "Blogs, personal web pages and most fansites, except those written by a recognized authority. (This exception for blogs, etc., controlled by recognized authorities is meant to be very limited; as a minimum standard, recognized authorities who are individuals always meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for people.)" You may disagree with the notion that authors writing on the blog are "recognized authorities." however, they are, including myself. Please read the definition of Wikipedia's notability criteria for people and tell me why it does not apply to authors who write for the Holland Blog. Relevant content is backed up with links to official documents; I can not think of a more appropriate link as a link to actual news about a town which is profiled with its own page on Wikipedia. If you can't come up with a better, more substantiated basis for your opinion, I will add the link again and will ask Wikipedia mediators about their opinion. You do not own the page about the town of Holland here on Wikipedia. Peterfrei (talk) 01:36, 8 September 2015 (UTC)