User talk:Weitzlux

Hello, Weitzlux! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra T C 16:36, 11 July 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Fair use • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Your edit to Yankee Stadium (a.o.)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Yankee Stadium do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. Thank you.

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Yankee Stadium, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with,
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors,
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam);

   and you must always:

4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially neutral point of view, verifiability, and autobiography.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Wikipedia:Conflict of Interest. Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:36, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to List of bus routes in Queens. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 policy 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 16:51, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Michael Greiner 16:57, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to respond to these comments. I put up several external links at once before I received any replies, and I didn't think that they would be classified as "innappropriate." In response to your multiple censures, I understand that they are "innappropriate" by your standards, and I will try to apply these links more carefully in the future. However, please note that I didn't post any more of these links after the first response comment was posted. Thanks— Preceding unsigned comment added by Weitzlux (talk • contribs)

You are posting external links only, which, under the wikipedia definition (see our spam guideline) is spamming. Also, you seem to have a conflict of interest (see our conflict of interest guideline) which may also be a problem. Wikipedia is not a linkfarm. Though some links may be OK (see this section in our policy 'What wikipedia is not'), a full list of links is not needed. If you still believe these links do provide extra information I would suggest, per all the quoted guidelines and policies here (and also others) to discuss them on the talkpages and, when consensus is reached, let uninvolved editors add the link. But of course it is better to provide content. Hope this explains, have a nice day. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 10:05, 12 July 2007 (UTC)