User talk:Boztown

Edit to Vin Scully

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. Ronbo76 18:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Stephan Said

Hi Boztown, thanks for your message. The {{cleanup-link rot}} template was added to the article because many of its citations currently expose visible portions of bare URLs (i.e. the "http", "www", "/", "directory/file/path", ".html" etc. portions of bare "machine-code" links). The issue can be resolved by replacing those ugly blue file-path strings with written text labels. For example, we can write http://en.wikipedia.org/ as a link to Wikipedia, and though it will function, it incorrectly exposes a bare URL. The same link however, can be written as Wikipedia (with a text label) to resolve the link rot issue... at which point, the maintenance template can be removed. It's not the quality of your references that's being challenged or disputed, it's just the way they are currently being displayed. -- WikHead (talk) 10:49, 23 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]