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Welcome[edit]

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Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Nigel ^(Talk) 16:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding commercial or personal-website links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --Nigel ^(Talk) 17:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. --Nigel ^(Talk) 17:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi NigelR,

I noticed that external links to where2golf.com resulting in "no results", were added on pages such as : Auguste Boyer; Martini International; German Open; Marcel Dallemagne. I made some corrections (which were not activated) and thought that the external link to where2golf would also be valid and useful for all other golf professionals who won a tournament either on the European or US Tour. Of course I will stop adding them if Wikipedia considers this as spamming. I am currently looking at which professionals Wikipedia does not cover and plan to upload their bio in the near future with an external link to Where2Golf if that is OK?.

Where2golf.com links[edit]

Hi Suzanne - thanks for the message. Think I'll pass this one over to the spam project as I have already taken out the links so a second opnion might be better. The problem is that with your name and your postings there does look to be a link with the website so we'll see what others have to say - thanks --Nigel ^(Talk) 10:47, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Suzanne. As a member of the project, I stand by NigelR on this one. It seems clear that you are connected with that commercial website. You are free of course (and in fact strongly encouraged) to contribute to entries on golfers but the links do not add content that could not itself be in the wikipedia article and as such are considered spam. The WP:SPAM page may help you further in understanding the Wikipedia policies on external links but I hope you understand the need for Wikipedia to hold some possibly overly strict standards to avoid being a spam target. Thanks. Pascal.Tesson 12:08, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's a bit more straightforward than that - Wikipedia:external links

A website that you own or maintain, even if the guidelines above imply that it should be linked to. This is because of neutrality and point-of-view concerns; neutrality is an important objective at Wikipedia, and a difficult one. If it is relevant and informative, mention it on the talk page and let other — neutral — Wikipedia editors decide whether to add the link.

So mention it on the talkpage and then let others decide if they wish to add it. --Charlesknight 07:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]