User talk:Scutfargus

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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! -- Siobhan Hansa 23:28, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. 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. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. ✤ JonHarder talk 01:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

I hope that you also noted the following guidelines: This page in a nutshell: Adding external links can be a service to our readers, but they should be kept to a minimum of those that are meritable, accessible and appropriate to the article.

I followed that criterion exactly.

And, as for the "Inappropriate links" you failed to quote the heading, so let me remind you of what it says: Links normally to be avoided. Let me respectfully submit that the page that I offered as a link has absolutely no advertising and no requests for money. I am sure that some links on the links page may contain advertising. What I suspect is actually going on here is, you have allowed your own personal feelings to become involved to a point to where you are essentially censoring what you want to censor. I have perused a number of articles in Wikipedia, and the places where I added links, if anything, had fewer links offered than the average article of a similar length. If there is a situation where there are, say, 50 links offered, I can see paring these down. However, in most cases, the total number of links where I added a link was around 10. Scutfargus 12:37, 13 February 2007 (UTC)


 * You misunderstand our motivation. We are concerned about the fact that your edits are entirely to promote an external site.  This does little to help us build a GFDL encyclopedia, and is considered spamming.  If you believe an editor deleting such links could be trying to censor a point of view then solely limiting your own editing to promoting that point of view is also problematic, see our neutral point of view policy.  I encourage you to improve our articles by adding content to them instead of using them to promote another website.  If you continue to add these links you may be blocked from editing.  -- Siobhan Hansa 14:41, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Again, I have followed the critereon exactly. All the links which are posted contribute a great deal of information to the topics. One is a 4000 page commentary, word by word translation of the book of Samuel. Surely, you don't expect me to cut and paste 1000 or so of those pages within an article. With regards to the article on fasting, there were references to several religions, but not a reference to Christian fasting; the article I linked to has every single relevant verse of Scripture covered along with the original Greek and Hebrew words for fasting included. 38 pages. Again, too many to cut and paste. The Ark of the Covenant is also a lengthy article covering such things as the movement of the Ark, and references to ever occurrence in Scripture.

If you check, say, "Michael Moore" or "Global Warming" there are tons more references listed; if you want to weed out references, why not go there and censor to your heart's delight? Again, if there were too many external links, I could see a problem, but there are actually very few external links on Biblical topics...perhaps that is exactly what you want?

It will suffice that there is no consensus for adding your links. Do not re-add links to your site.

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. Femto 16:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)