User talk:Shadowthedog

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By adding your link to 30+ pages you have identified yourself as a linkspammer. With very rare exceptions, an external link should be added to only one or two appropriate pages. I suggest you delete the superfluous ones, lest you risk all the links being deleted by the spam watchers. If the link is your own, you need to put it on the talk page first and let someone else add it if it is worthy. Wikipedia is not a collection of links. Pollinator 01:03, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I am rolling back all these link additions. Please add links that specific add value to an article and that is closely related to the subject only. ≈ jossi ≈ t &bull; @ 01:26, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Tom Harrison Talk 11:50, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks like you have readded the links again. This is your last chance. Any more linkspamming and you will be blocked indefinitely. Thank you. --Woohookitty(meow) 08:46, 4 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, we're pretty strict when it comes to External links. The problem with the site you are linking to is that it's tangential. It's nothing directly involved with the article itself. Wikipedia is not a link repository. Even our featured articles only typically have 5 or 6 external links, if that. Here is another guideline you can take a look at it. Again, the site you are adding is not directly related to these sites. If we allowed links like yours, well then, we could then include any societies similar to the C. S. Lewis Society or the Independent Institute. We have to have limits. And unfortunately, neither site you are linking to is within those limits. "The sites mention these topics occasionally" isn't enough. It has to be more direct than that. An article from those sites is one thing. Just a general link is another. --Woohookitty(meow) 00:29, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * If you can find a link to an article that can help the article, link the article. But we do not do general external links. The link you put in for self-ownership is an example. It doesn't even mention Lewis much less include an article link. We just don't do general external links like that. --Woohookitty(meow) 02:20, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Shadowthedog,

I would like to add to the comments above that Wikipedia does not allow adding links to your own site; this is explained at External links. I noticed that the sites you have been adding are registered to the same person and Oakland, CA address.

I realize that you may honestly feel the links are valuable, but the rules against adding one's own sites are based on Wikipedia's policy of neutrality; people naturally find sites they are involved with to be valuable. If you feel a particular link is especially appropriate, you may ask on the relevant talk page for a neutral editor to add it.

If there's anything I can do to clarify Wikipedia's policies or if you think I misunderstood the situation, please let me know. Wmahan. 05:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

The policies here have been hammered out over time, to serve the community. You have the potential to make valuable edits here, but will not be allowed to do so, if you persist in writing your own rules. It is plain that your primary purpose here now is not to edit, but to add links to your sites, and Wikipedians really, really frown on that. Look again at the links I originally gave you for a fuller explanation of policies. Do not add any further links without discussion on the article's talk pages, or you will be blocked from editing. Pollinator 07:27, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

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