User talk:Prateekm05

June 2023
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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.  MrOllie (talk) 10:29, 29 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Would greatly appreciate if you could tell me how the links I added were inappropriate? The page lists below 6 acts. While 4. and 5. have links to access the details of those acts, 1, 2, 3 & 6 do not have any link to know the act details. Also, 1 & 3 are same. So I removed no. 3 and added link to no. 1 and 2, so that a user can access the particular act's details.
 * 1. The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (no link to access act details)
 * 2. The Dissolution of Muslim Marriage Act, 1939 (no link to access act details)
 * 3. The Parsi Marriage and Divorce Act, 1936 (same as no. 1)
 * 4 The Special Marriage Act, 1954 (link is there to access act details)
 * 5 The Foreign Marriage Act, 1969 (link is there to access act details)
 * 6. The Dissolution of Marriage and Judicial separation (under the Indian Divorce Act, 1869). [no link to access act details] Prateekm05 (talk) 12:41, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * You really don't understand the difference between an internal link to another Wikipedia article and an external link to a spam site? MrOllie (talk) 12:48, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I understand that but as you can see these acts do not have any wikipedia pages. I did check that before adding external link. Would you recommend that I try to make a new wikipediea page on these acts and then link those pages? Prateekm05 (talk) 13:03, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * No. I would not recommend that you continue attempting to add these links. MrOllie (talk) 13:36, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * So even if a link provides specific, accurate and valuable information to the user, I should not add that link because it belongs to a new website. Correct? Sorry to ask so many questions I'm a new blogger. Prateekm05 (talk) 16:11, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is not a link directory, so no. We're not a site to place external links. MrOllie (talk) 16:26, 29 June 2023 (UTC)