User talk:Palmbeech

May 2009

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 Google News 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. Thank you. Amplitude101 (talk) 02:23, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

May 22, 2009

Why was the reference to the Drudge Report and the Political Simpleton removed? A request for the external link to removed was fufilled. Please Advise Palmbeech Palmbeech (talk) 12:40, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles or other Wikipedia pages. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 13:37, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick response MrOllie. How would one insert a reference or example without it being considered using WIKI as a "soapbox"? Thank you Palmbeech (talk) 14:04, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

It is usually better not to insert examples, especially web sites, because spammers will inevitably come along and insert their own site and make an ever growing list. More specific to this case, it will help a lot to avoid mentioning sites that we've just had WP:COI problems with, as documented here. - MrOllie (talk) 14:09, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you in advance MrOllie. Palmbeech (talk) 15:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)