User talk:TheDorsetGuide

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. TastyPoutine talk (if you dare) 04:52, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

How am i spamming? I provided correct and useful knowledge for three articles relating to Dorset that i thought would benefit other wiki site viewers. The link was to a non commerical non profit site which provides even more information and photographic material relating to the same subjects for the same County.


 * Several concerns. The site appears to contains to have as a large component for accomodation booking which is not acceptable under the external link guildeines.  Two, given your user name, there may be a conflict of interest issue.  Finally as a reference, I do not believe that the site would qualify as a reliable source.  I welcome your contributions; however, I believe the link to the site should be left out for that reason.   TastyPoutine talk (if you dare)  13:54, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I believe your link will be completely appropriate at Wikitravel and I recommend it to you. TastyPoutine talk (if you dare)  14:38, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

My site has no reference to accommodation at all. Please look again, though i will say you have had another site listed in references dorsets.co.uk using the term Dorset Guide, who provided one sentance to the swanage page and his entire site is not accurate and he lists accommodation. So once again i do not understand, i added information that was not listed and relevent to the Great Globe and George Burt. My site is very reliable and all of my information sourced while on location in Dorset. Thanks :) Please reply.
 * You are right and that is certainly my mistake. I am still not thrilled with it and I cannot guarantee that another editor will not take a harder line that me.  But I would go ahead and replace if I were you.


 * A couple of things to help you. They were red flags that drew my attention.  When placing a reference in the body, please make sure that the actual reference is at the end of a sentence ratehr than in the middle.  Also, please make sure that you properly place the header ==References== if it does not exist on the page already.  When the "reference" gets dropped into external links, that is one of the things that tends to set of the alarms from my side.  After you have placed the link, you are free to let me know and I will review to make sure that its formatted correctly.  TastyPoutine talk (if you dare)  23:19, 17 May 2009 (UTC)