User talk:Gillianfc
April 2008
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Daughters of the Cross 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 article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. If you were trying to insert a good link, please accept my creator's apologies, but note that the external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bexample\.com' .
Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 20:21, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
Copy of my reply to your question on the new contributors' help page
[edit]Hello Gillianfc, I think the problem is you put a link to the website in a random place in the article. The body of an article should contains links to other Wikipedia pages, not to external websites. Your link belongs in a special "External links" section near the bottom of the article. See for example this page which was linked from the page you were trying to edit.
I also see you got a warning when you tried to add a postal code to the name of an institution. I'm guessing the person who called it "vandalism" doesn't understand UK postal codes, and thought someone was entering some random letters and numbers! Anyway, I don't recommend putting an address in the article; that is closer to an advertisement than an encyclopedia entry. Also, you said you wanted to put a link to your website on several pages. I advise against this; just pick the page that is most relevant. If your future changes get reverted again, I suggest following the instructions in the warnings you got, and ask for advice on the article's discussion page. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 13:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Copy of my reply to your question on the new contributors' help page
[edit]Hello Gillianfc. I have had a look at what you were doing, and I can't see that it seriously violated Wikipedia guidelines in content, just in layout. Knight's right - we don't usually put addresses in here, and the extra links you were proposing would indeed have been too much like advertising, but a single link to the St Elizabeth's website should be fine and so should one to the main Daughters of the Cross site. We have a policy here about "biting" newcomers WP:BITE and I think you just unfortunately - and without any malice - got a little nipped by mistake!
I have been in and made some changes to the article, adding the external links section and formatting the links correctly, and rewording the description of St Elizabeth's in a way that I hope will pass muster with the bots and other editors. I hope this helps, but please feel free to remove or alter my changes if I have been inaccurate. -- Karenjc 16:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
sorry for misdirected warning...
[edit]I do not know much about British postal codes, as I live in the US, so I thought your edit was a test. I apologize for warning you when I shouldn't have. J.delanoygabsadds 14:38, 22 April 2008 (UTC)