User talk:Samfml

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Maralia (talk) 04:42, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

-- A. B. (talk • contribs) 05:08, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Domain-tracking:

Hi. Thanks for your invitation on my talk page. You have a nice web site and I wish you well with your endeavour but you absolutely must not promote it on Wikipedia. Please see our relevant standards:
 * What Wikipedia is Not -- especially these sections:
 * Wikipedia is Not a Soapbox for promotion
 * Wikipedia is Not a Mirror or a Repository of Links, Images, or Media Files
 * External Links Guideline -- your links don't qualify for inclusion here. (Because we're an encyclopaedia, we have very narrow criteria for links we can use).
 * Spam Guideline -- we consider promoting your links as you have a form of linkspam
 * Conflict of Interest Guideline -- you have a conflict of interest when writing about your site or linking to it.

I read your user page -- I know you can offer us a lot with your knowledge of marine technology and merchant shipping. Just, please, no more stuff about sailorbits.com while your editing here. -- A. B. (talk • contribs) 12:53, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Dear sir, Understnd your views on the External link policy. Actually, I saw Seafolks.com as an External Link on the same page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor) which is exactly a similar site as ours and thought it might be permitted. --Samfml (talk) 14:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)