User talk:StronglyConsidered

July 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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 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, please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Deor (talk) 15:16, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. The link you provide appears to relate to the generic term Coastal Artillery, whereas the link provided by me, to which you have objected, seems to me to have been more in keeping with the purpose of the article amended, i.e. the history of the British Army formation Coast Artillery. I should be very grateful if you would find the time to re-instate my link at your early convenience.
 * I suggest that you read WP:ELNO, in particular item 10. External links to social-networking sites are not really suitable in Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia is not a collection of links and should not be used to attract users to external sites that do not provide useful supplementary information on the topics of articles. If you think that the links to Forces Reunited that you have been adding to articles are useful additions, I recommend that you seek consensus on the articles' talk pages, as suggested in my original message above. (And in the particular case of Coastal artillery, the topic of the article is "the generic term Coastal Artillery" rather than "the British Army formation Coast Artillery.") Deor (talk) 15:40, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I stand corrected regarding the character of the article to which you have alluded and I apologise for a careless reply. The purpose of the links that have been inserted have been to add value to the pages in question. Our membership are frequently sought out by authors and producers because they are repositories of experience. Because the lists of names have been filtered, by the actions of the individuals themselves, it seems to me that the links I have been providing are not in the spirit of the exclusions that are addressed. It is also difficult to see how people in the list can be visible to the world through a means other than this. I am certainly not the first person to see the value of adding such links to the entries on units of HM Forces.