User talk:Zebragel

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. Nyttend (talk) 04:09, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

Nyttend: Perhaps you could clarify how the external links I added do not follow guidelines, but yet the external link for The Montana Standard does.


 * It's common to list a link for a local newspaper, but we don't give links for individual radio stations: there's usually only one significant newspaper in a community (if there's another one, it wouldn't necessarily be wrong to have the other one linked too) but there are plenty of radio stations. If you don't think that the newspaper link fits the guidelines either, then remove it.  Please don't remove the references section, which is necessary for proper verifiability.  Nyttend (talk) 17:36, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

KXLF is not a radio station, it is a TV station. I don't want to remove the link to the Montana Standard, as I think it is a valid external link. Both The Montana Standard and KXLF TV websites have local news stories, weather, and live webcams. The wikipedia user who is interested in Butte, may want to visit both websites to view current happenings in our city.


 * The principle is the same for TV stations (sorry for the error), and please read WP:NOTLINK: we don't list every page that is possibly interesting. I'm sorry, but you're repeatedly violating the spam policy.  Nyttend (talk) 04:01, 25 August 2008 (UTC)