User talk:RedDrag0n

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Good luck! Doops | talk 23:51, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

P.S. One last helpful hint. To sign your posts like I did above (on talk pages, for example) use the '~' symbol. To insert just your name, type (3 tildes), or to insert your name and timestamp, use ~ (4 tildes).

(the above is a verbatim borrowing of the welcome left me, some time ago, by Jrdioko)

External links and see also
Hi there,

First of all, welcome to Wikipedia. Always nice to have more people on board. Second, I note that so far your contributions have been in the field of adding external links. A minor note about style first. External links are generally supposed to be in a section "External links", and not in "See also". "See also" is for other wiki articles. (See Wikipedia's style guide for more on this.) Second, and here is where it gets a bit stickier, every single link you have added so far has apparently linked to the same website. I'm a little concerned by this.

External links aren't required for every article. A good article will have little need of them. (The "References" section is another kettle of fish altogether.) And I am afraid that I am a bit dubious about the accuracy of the site you link to. The article about the Welsh flag is very much one person's position, and the page which describes itself as "factoids" has several stories which I think are not true. WP:EL is a page about external links and when (and how) to insert them. To be honest, I don't think it supports adding links to this "famous welsh" website on twenty different pages. Which is why I am likely to remove a number of these links when next I edit the relevant pages.

In addition, the sudden adding of more than a dozen links to one website can look terribly like someone trying to increase that website's visibility. That is called link-spamming and tends to get all mentions of the website reverted on sight. For this reason it's not always a good idea not to go around adding twenty links to the same website in the same session.

I hope the above doesn't come off as too unfriendly. It is not my intention to be! Don't be put off. Have a read of the style guide, and then dive back into editing. See you around!

Telsa 07:51, 19 September 2005 (UTC)