User talk:Rodneyweaver

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Ian.thomson (talk) 23:24, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

June 2015
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one or more of your recent edits to The Urantia Book has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.

Thank you. ClueBot NG (talk) 03:06, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
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 * The following is the log entry regarding this message: The Urantia Book was changed by Rodneyweaver (u) (t) ANN scored at 0.86044 on 2015-06-23T03:06:38+00:00.


 * Although Cluebot got a false positive here, the edit would have been reverted for being unsourced. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:11, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

While you technically did not give the site's address, you did promote a website, so: Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to The Urantia Book. 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. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:29, 23 June 2015 (UTC)