User talk:Devbob
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[edit] February 2007
[edit] Your edit to Norah Jones and others
Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. Belovedfreak 19:51, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Further edit to Reba McEntire
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 policy 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, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Belovedfreak 16:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Email
Thanks for your email regarding the above edits and warnings. I am sorry you seem to feel a bit persecuted, that's certainly not my intention. I'm simply going by the guidelines at WP:EL and WP:NOT because I happen to agree with them. I don't think that each wikipedia article should end up being a long list of links. By all means keep editing, just remember the note at the bottom of the page: "If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly or redistributed by others, do not submit it." I don't think you're being malicious in any way, but I do disagree with what you're doing. One way around it could be to start a discussion about links you're adding on the talkpage of the article, then other people can get involved to agree or disagree. In the mean time, feel free to contact me on my talkpage. Belovedfreak 19:29, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
- I see you have already put a message on the Reba McEntire talkpage, that's good. Please feel free to mention my username, rather than a "certain person" - I'm not ashamed of my actions. Belovedfreak 19:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
