User talk:Pupil123

Welcome and introduction[edit]

Hi, Pupil123. This is NOT some automated message...it's from a real person by golly! And this real person (that would be me), wants to say welcome to Wikipedia! I'm glad you've made an account! Thanks for joining; you're on your way to making some great contributions.

Because I've noticed you've just joined, I wanted to give you a few tips to get you started. If you have any questions, please talk to us. Any questions are fine, nothing is too silly (we've heard them all). Now, the tips below - hop on them - they should help you begin editing. Best of luck! JoeSmack ^Talk 14:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yessss! You made an account! Totally sweet!

Anybody can edit; just go to an article and edit it. Be Bold, but please don't put silly stuff in - it will be removed very quickly, and will annoy people. Besides that, you shouldn't feel nervous or anything about a good-willed contribution. If you're concerned, talk to us.

Play in your user area. For example, create User:Pupil123/test. If you feel nervous, feel free to talk to us.

When you're ready, start your first article using the Article Wizard. You don't HAVE to use it, but for your first article it really helps. It should be about something well-known, and it will need references. If you'd like more guidance, you guessed it, talk to us.

Good luck with editing; please drop me a line some time on my own talk page. (You'll want to sign your name with these four tildes ~~~~ when you leave something on a talk page to help know who you are!)

Once again, welcome to the fantastic world of Wikipedia!

--JoeSmack ^Talk 14:59, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. If you just feel like poking around, Wikipedia:Help is a good place to start. :)

Spamming[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

For help you should place {{helpme}}--NotedGrant Talk 15:35, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External limks[edit]

I don't intend http://www.weddingsday.co.uk/ not to comply with your External Links policy. I found the website very useful, and noticed it wasn't on Wikipedia. I very often go straight to External links when using Wikipedia. Am I allowed to add this link?

No this is not my policy it's wp's policy (Jimbo made it) You can try asking at the help IRC--NotedGrant Talk 15:45, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ha, actually Jimbo didn't make it, it is the result of consensus of all of Wikipedia. Here is the thing Pupil - that site is one wedding planning guide site of what have to be thousands, right? We can't put them all in the external links section. JoeSmack ^Talk 15:50, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits[edit]

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You may also click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 15:45, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Spam link[edit]

Please stop adding references to that website to Wikipedia. It's not acceptable as an external link, nor is it acceptable to use it as an example of a website in the text of the article. Bencherlite ^Talk 16:14, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reply to your Spam link - I don't mean to be obstinate, but I've never done this before, and am learning. I only did it because I notice that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Exchange has a weblink to what may be considered a commercial site. Please can you be more specific in how I know whether a link is not acceptable?Pupil123 (talk) 12:19, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That's fine, everyone's learning here. Bradford Exchange is an article about the company, so it's not surprising to have a link to that company's website. Wedding planner is an article about wedding planners in general, so it's inappropriate to single out one particular wedding planner's website as you were doing. Have a look at WP:PROMO as well. (Incidentally, if you want to link to an article in discussions like this, you just use pairs of square brackets like this: [[Bradford Exchange]], which produces Bradford Exchange - you don't need to copy the whole url. Regards, Bencherlite ^Talk 12:22, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]