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Please stop adding commercial links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. This Fire Burns Always 20:39, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

January 2008[edit]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Guru Gobind Singh‎ . 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. 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. utcursch | talk 09:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. A contribution you made to Guru Gobind Singh appears to carry a non-neutral point of view, and your edit may have been changed or reverted to correct the problem. Please remember to observe our core policies. Thank you. utcursch | talk 09:58, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, as you did to Guru Gobind Singh, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. utcursch | talk 06:24, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Guru Gobind Singh[edit]

Hello and thank you for your contributions to the article Guru Gobind Singh. Wikipedia articles are written in encyclopedic tone. I'm not questioning the truthfulness of your edits -- the issue is the the style of writing and tone. While sentences like "Leaving the Mundane World" and "Having offered His all at the Altar of the Divine..." would be perfect for an article on a Sikh religious site, they are not consistent with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and its manual of style.

For an example, please see the Wikipedia articles on Jesus, Muhammad, Sathya Sai Baba etc. -- they're written in an objective manner, in encyclopedic tone, as opposed to hagiographic style you will find on a Christian, Muslim or Hindu website.

Words like "last and unique homage" and "with a Thunder of Eternity" will be perfectly alright for a magazine article, but Wikipedia articles are written in an objective matter. utcursch | talk 15:29, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]