User talk:Suisse Banker
April 2008
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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 Leveraged buyout 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. Gwernol 10:58, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for your response on my talk page. Unfortunately the link you added is to a blog, and one that is not focused on leverage buyouts, but on more general private equity matters. Quoting from the external link guidelines, links normally to be avoided include:
- "Links to blogs and personal web pages, except those written by a recognized authority" - I see no evidence that this particular blog would count as an exception to this
- "Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject"
- So I'm afraid I don't believe that this link is a suitable addition to the Leveraged buyout article. Thanks, Gwernol 12:54, 21 April 2008 (UTC)