User talk:Toby Lake

Welcome to Wikipedia![edit]

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October 2011[edit]

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Occupy Toronto has been reverted.
Your edit here to Occupy Toronto was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://http://www.facebook.com/groups/occupy.toronto/) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:42, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Occupy Toronto. 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. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 03:40, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've got nothing against your Facebook group, or what you are trying to organize, not at all. It's not my "personal objection"—it's Wikipedia guidelines and policies. This isn't the website to use to try to get the word out; see WP:NOTADVERTISING. External links to to social networking sites are typically removed; see WP:ELNO #10, and WP:ADV. Sorry, it's not really up for discussion. Paul Erik ^{(talk)(contribs)} 11:50, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]