User talk:Saz127

Spam
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 15:36, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

please stop
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 15:39, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

An explanation
Wikipedia is not an advertising service for the Penn State Press (or anyone else). While it appears that many of the books you are inserting links to are valid scholarly publications and could be used as references for citations within the articles, just inserting External links to these books is spam. If you cite these books as references, please use cite book. Please see the following policies on: spam, External links and Single purpose accounts. You can be blocked from editing if you do not stop. Thanks, Ruhrfisch &gt;&lt;&gt; &deg; &deg; 15:45, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Adding References
Hi Saz127, sorry to be slow in replying. Than you for asking my advice and for reading the policies and guidelines in question. Wikipedia has a fairly steep learning curve, but fortunately one of the basic principles here is assume good faith (so people tend to be forgiving of mistakes if they were made with good intent).

I do not know what your situation is, but from your communications so far, my guess is that you are in some way associated with the Penn State Press. If so, you might want to also read this essay about single purpose accounts and also the guideline on conflict of interest.

I think the best and easiest thing to do would be to add the books as specific references backing up specific sentences or paragraphs of articles. For this I would use ref tags and the cite book template. Here is an example from White Deer Hole Creek with an ISBN and website and note. The code:

 These are seen as corruptions of Woap-achtu-woalhen, and by 1770 (when the first settlers arrived) a map has "White Deer hole" (sic). 

 ===References=== 

 

produces this sentence with an automatically numbered footnote and the cite below in the References section.

These are seen as corruptions of Woap-achtu-woalhen, and by 1770 (when the first settlers arrived) a map has "White Deer hole" (sic).