User talk:Wyvern2007

July 2007
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. 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. / Mats Halldin (talk) 20:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

January 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, 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. / Mats Halldin (talk) 18:25, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Wiki-mail
From wiki-mail sent January 12:
 * Mats
 * Why are you removing this link? This particular Wikipedia article (Dyes) is unbalanced and extremely light on natural dyes, which are at least half of the topic. If you look at the References section, you will see that several are semi-commercial whilst the one that I gave is a very broad, informative site on dyes with no commercial aspect and certainly not spam in any sense recognised in the English language.


 * I put it there to provide readers with a broader, more balanced perspective to dyes in general and to provide them with verifiable information on this important subject.


 * I presume that the removal was through some automated bot but you are doing Wikipedia readers a disservice if you keep it off, without genuine grounds. Can we have the link back, please?


 * Regards
 * Wyvern2007.


 * Wyern2007,
 * &bull; On Wikipedia we normally don't send wiki-mails to other contributors, but we drop messages on others talk pages - like I'm doing here.
 * &bull; Your contribution history is a list of external links added to Wikipedia articles. Please read WP:EL.
 * &bull; The site "birdcarver" is not directly related to any of the bird articles you've been editing, so adding those links was pure spam.
 * &bull; "wildcolours" is arguably related to Dye, so adding a link in this case might actually make sense. IMO the guidelines for external links are rather restrictive, but its possible you are right and I'm being over-zealous here.  If you read the guidelines and still insist that article actually need that link, feel free to add it, I won't remove it a second time.
 * &bull; Lastly, no, I'm not a bot, just a wikipediholic.
 * / Mats Halldin (talk) 18:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)