User talk:Rich pal

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! JonHarder talk 14:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
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What a welcome!
Thank you Jon, as a user whom seldom posts on Wikipedia I do struggle with posting or editing articles though hope I am improving. My aim is to improve the quality of information on Wikipedia and provide relevant and useful links where appropriate to other users. Though you may well find adding, editing and deleting posts second nature I find it very hard work. The topics I am following I think need tidying up, but I do not wish to start deleting links which others may consider very useful. Can I say thank you for the guidance links for tutorials, as a new user I certainly need them! Rich pal 10:00, 23 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Finding appropriate, helpful external links for an article is a difficult task. Usually there are less than two or three that are truly beneficial. It is almost always better for an article to add text and provide references for the content. If you find a very useful external site, use the material to expand the article (in your own words) and then use that website as a reference. The satellite articles are especially prone to collecting junk links by a variety of people who are involved in some aspect of the business. As experienced editors catch on to this, the satellite articles are getting cleansed of this type of abuse and are under more scrutiny. The site you added to two articles doesn't meet the standards of the external links guideline. JonHarder talk 14:56, 23 December 2006 (UTC)