User talk:Andythorntonwrites

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External links

Hello, and welcome. I'm afraid I'm about to remove the links you've been adding to footballers' articles such as you did here, and thought I'd come and explain why. There are guidelines as to what we should and should not add to the External links section of an article; if you want to, you can read about it here at Wikipedia:External links. The site you added comes under WP:EL#Links normally to be avoided parts 4 (Links mainly intended to promote a website) and 5 (Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services). It appears to promote a service whereby people pay £1 to have a message printed out and sent to a footballer at his training ground on the off-chance he might reply; such a site is inappropriate on Wikipedia. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 18:37, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Thanks for the email. I have replied on the Michael owen thread but am unsure as to how this all works so posting here as well.

I added links to a website that allows fans to contact thei favourite football players. The website in question has signed up over 70 professional footballers at various levels to respond to fanmail (anyone with a star on the website will respond to fanmail). All the players that had links added to them were those who do actually respond to messages.

Whilst the website does offer a different service of printing out messages for those players who have not yet signed up, no links to these players were added.

Fans would, of course, be interested in how to contact their favourite player by official routes, and are guanranteed a response, so a discrete link at the bottom of the page to an Official site should surely be encouraged?

ThanksAndythorntonwrites (talk) 08:32, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

I've replied at Talk:Michael Owen. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 08:47, 2 April 2009 (UTC)