User talk:Sharpdarts

May 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Waveney with this edit 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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 article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Cst17 (talk) 10:35, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

June 2011
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Great Yarmouth. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 12:25, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hello. I appreciate that you must get a fair bit of spam. However, I can assure you that we are not spamming. We understand that there is no SEO benefit to be had by adding links to websites such as wiki that adopt the nofollow tag. I would therefore ask you look over the resources we are adding. In this instance it is clearly the most useful resource available to find information on Great Yarmouth, being the tourism information website for Great Yarmouth. Likewise with the other tourism information websites for Hopton, Gorleston, Caister & Hemsby. These websites are part of the NorfolkRiviera.co.uk group of tourism information websites for providing tourism information for the East Norfolk region.
 * Tourism information websites are not suitable as external links. The policy (at WP:EL) states that external links should not be "to individual web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services". All of the links that you have added are to tourism information sites, which are sites for the commercial promotion of the location as a tourism destination. The description of these as "valuable external resource[s]" is also fairly misleading. Ilikeeatingwaffles (talk) 15:32, 7 June 2011 (UTC)