User talk:BarometerBob

November 2008[edit]

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 Hurricane preparedness 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. Lcarscad (talk) 01:57, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome![edit]

Hello, BarometerBob! 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

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External links[edit]

Hi Bob. I noticed you posted to an article talk page about the removal of your link. Some explanation for you (I removed the one you put on List of internet stations). New users like to come in and add external links, so they are forever being removed almost automatically. Additionally, since one of the links was to your own site, you have a conflict of interests. So, posting to the article talk page and letting more experienced users decide was the correct thing to do.

Sounds like you may be useful on some of our weather articles. Have fun editing Wikipedia. --GraemeL ^(talk) 02:14, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]