User talk:Utcumque

Welcome

Hello, Utcumque, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 20:58, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

External links

Wikipedia is not a link pharm. Every external link must provide encyclopedic value for the specific article for which it is included. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 21:05, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

An external link needs to provide a unique resource of verified information. The information is not verified nor is it a unique repository of such information. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 22:51, 7 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Further to this, links to search engines are discouraged under WP:LINKSTOAVOID. It doesn't help the reader to, at the bottom of the Harry Houdini article, provide a general link to a search engine that's a "World map of magic places, featuring points of interest related to Harry Houdini." - these places of interest should, if important, already be documented in the article. If they aren't, it's more useful to add them to the text than to tell the reader to visit a website, enter a search term, and then click through the results until they find something the article hasn't already told them. --McGeddon (talk) 09:42, 8 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

March 2013

Hello, Utcumque! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking

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7&6=thirteen (☎) 09:26, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]