User talk:Galina ovt
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[edit]Hello, Galina ovt, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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Again, welcome! Alex Bakharev 22:42, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
External links
[edit]You recently asked me about a link I removed from Rock Island State Park (Wisconsin). Certainly they are very nice pictures. Please look over Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. In articles about scenic parts of the world, there is an understandable temptation to make links to pictures. However this is not the purpose of Wikipedia. In general, external links in articles should only go to official websites and sites that further the encyclopedic content of that article. External links should not replace a simple search in Google or Flickr. If you have your own pictures to upload, please look into contributing to Wikimedia Commons. I hope this helps to explain my action. Happy editing! McGhiever (talk) 20:53, 29 November 2008 (UTC)