User talk:Stcdaddy

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Bellaire, Ohio, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. 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! Muhandes (talk) 08:26, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
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Adding links to ovtoday
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I see you've been adding links to ovtoday in several articles. I'd like to ask you to carefully peruse the guideline for external links before continuing this, as the links do not appear to conform with what is accepted as external link. --Muhandes (talk) 08:30, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

About reverting links
I'm fairly inexperienced with this, so I hope you see it and can respond. I added links to OVToday.com, which is a community website that offers news and information about the things found in towns and communities in the Ohio Valley region. Although it charges for advertising (like the several links I saw for newspapers and other websites like adenanews.com) it has much information, all free to submit and access, about events, churches, community history, news, & attractions, and is authoritative information not found or in some cases, found easily from other internet sources. So I thought the link was appropriate. Where am I mistaken? Stcdaddy (talk) 01:01, 4 April 2011 (UTC)John Holyak, Stcdaddy
 * From your description it seems like user created content, not much different than a blog (see WP:ELNO #11). On the two articles in which I looked deeper into it, it did not satisfy any requirement from WP:ELYES and the fact that the source is not knowledgeable also disqualifies it from WP:ELMAYBE. You can try to ask at this talk page, maybe they think otherwise. --Muhandes (talk) 10:30, 4 April 2011 (UTC)