User talk:TDL 87
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Hello, TDL 87, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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February 2012
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Babysitting 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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 constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:12, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
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. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 20:30, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Babysitting with this edit. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 20:49, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Opportunities to improve Wikipedia's 3 million + articles are frequent. Please proceed. Ariconte (talk) 22:23, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
- Generally, an edit that includes a link to a new website but doesn't do anything else on the page, such as positively modifying the content, is probably spam. There are hundreds of websites that could potentially be added to most Wikipedia pages. To keep the amount of clutter down, generally just a few very pertinent websites are listed. You probably want to go to the article talk page, such as Talk:Babysitting or Talk:Nanny, and start a discussion there about adding the website, explaining why it's better than the websites already listed. If you'd like any further help, contact me on my user talk page or put a {{help me}} template up on your own user talk page and someone will be along to help you. :) Banaticus (talk) 22:58, 27 February 2012 (UTC)