User talk:Tjr36

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Again, welcome! -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:39, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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. vvv^t 17:11, 13 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thanks for the message. Sorry, but I think that your external links to the collections at Yale are inappropriate. See WP:EL. With respect to G&S, specifically, the main collections for G&S are the British Library, the Theatre Museum, the Royal Academy of Music, the DOC archives and the Morgan library (in NY). Yale's collection, highlighted by Sullivan's diaries, is similar in size and importance to the collections at Harvard and several other institutions. WP:EL does not permit links to all these places. Indeed, we don't even link to the Morgan or the other major collections, because their content is not directly accessible to online readers. That's what links are primarily for here. Your basic intention, as confirmed by your user page, is to use Wikipedia to promote the Yale collections, which is clearly forbidden by our guidelines and is an inappropriate use of an encyclopedia. See WP:NOT. Here's an idea: Write a Wikipedia article about Gilbert and Sullivan scholarship. That article would be an obvious place to discuss the major surviving G&S collections and the scholars who have compiled them. All the best, -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:07, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]