Drlynch

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I notice you have been adding links to a number of pages. Please see our policy on external links. We strongly discourage editors from adding links to their own websites or sites they are affiliated with. Wikipedia is not just a link directory, so we try to keep the number of links in articles to a minimum and only to the very most relevant sites (such as official sites, pertaining to the article topic). Please stop adding your links to pages. People that only add links to Wikipedia are often viewed as spammers (even if you think your content is good and valuable; that might be the case, but it is better to let others working on writing the articles to be the judge). Best regards. --Aude (talk) 00:34, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Re Multiple edits of external links - HELP

Drlynch, you left me a message on my talk page (this one). Since I haven't removed any of the links posted under this user account (USER:Drlynch), I assume you're talking about the edits I made (such as this) on November 16th.

I deleted these links because they failed our external links guidelines in several ways, and there were numerous edits to articles by one IP account all of which promoted the same resource. That is generally considered to be Spam, I noted this in the edit summaries I made (you can see edit summaries for a page by clicking on the "history" tab at the top of any page).

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a portal for all possible information on a subject. We summarize and present the major points of view of experts in the field of a subject. If you are only interested in the information being available and it is representative of major points of view of experts in the field, rather than promoting links to your book, I suggest you add the information to the article (citing reliable sources of course). Making the information available on Wikipedia itself will allow it to be propagated by all sorts of mechanisms and reach a wider audience than it otherwise might. If your information is at odds with the significant points of view of experts in your field, you need to change that before you look to Wikipedia as a channel to get those ideas out to the public. We do not promote or cover original research.

I hope that makes answers your question about what you can do. If not, or if you have other questions, please let me know. --Siobhan Hansa 03:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)