User talk:Gazzarudi

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 guideline 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, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Pfainuk talk 12:56, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. This is copied from my talk page (both messages are basically identical).

You can read our external links guideline here. Please note specifically point 4 of external links to be avoided (that's the same page): Links mainly intended to promote a website. This is further explained here.

You'll notice that our policy regarding what we call "spam" includes things that might not normally be called "spam". It's not just about advertising on the linked website, it's about advertising the website itself.

Finally, you may be interested in this. Discuss with other people at Talk:Gibraltar (ignore the very long discussion at the beginning and add a new section at the end). Or you could use the information on the website to add cited text. Bear in mind that there are a lot of websites on Gibraltar (we have to draw the line somewhere) and the domain name or web address is not considered relevant as to whether one should be included. Thanks, Pfainuk talk 13:45, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Again, I've just copied this from my talk page.

There's a very big difference on Wikipedia between a reference and an external link. A reference - which may be to another website - is justification for a specific section of the text of an article. Our policies mean that we have to reference most of our material. An external link is a link to another website that is not being used to justify any part of the article.

If you were to add relevant material to the article, referenced to your site, then there would be no problem. You'd want to read some of our policies first: WP:FIVE could be useful, along with WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:NOR and WP:CITE are the basics. You may also want to bear in mind that if the material isn't considered relevant to the article by others it may be removed on those grounds. If you're not sure, go to the discussion page, as I say, and people will discuss your edits with you.

One more thing - when using talk pages (but not when writing articles), you can sign your posts by writing "~~~~" Pfainuk talk 17:33, 20 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]