User talk:Honeystung

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. soum ^talk 02:50, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi, please read WP:EL for what is a valid external link. Articles are not here to be a directory of links related to a ceertain subject or to promote certain aspects about the subject. Rather external links are only added when it has significant information that cannot be covered in the article, for example an interview or a review. Also forums, blogs and other self published sources cannot be an EL.

For the points that you mentioned, the link to International Amber Association is promoting that. How is it encyclopedically relevant to the Amber article. This is just an example. True, a few of the links might have been good EL. I apologize for reverting en masse, because the ones I checked were not proper.

Yes, the article indeed asks for help, but to develop content, not link to other pages. As you are in amber trade for long, you might be very valuable in developing it. If the articles contain some important information, regarding any aspect, just add it to the article. If you got it off some site, then make an citation attributing it. If you think, there is a lot to add on certain topic (like trade), then create a new article (such as Amber trade, in this article the Intl. Amber Assoc. will be a good EL) for it. The article is a long way from the best works here. Any help is more than welcome. --soum ^talk 08:28, 4 July 2007 (UTC)