User talk:Bwclark1974
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July 2008
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If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Robert G. Clark, Jr., you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Entrepreneur 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 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, 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. MrOllie (talk) 00:55, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Your Limited liability company external link
[edit]Thank you for writing. I am happy to explain my thoughts.
I removed yours and one other link because I do not believe that they meet Wikipedia's policy on external links. In my own words, the idea of the external links is that they must make a substantial additional contribution that is beyond the scope of the article. If it adds nothing, it shouldn't be there. If it has additional material that is within the scope of the article, the additional material should be incorporated into the article. For what it is worth, I have always questioned whether the Nolo article should be their either, but it has been there so long that I have been reluctant to delete it.
If you look back over the last two or three years, you will see that dozens and dozens of links have been removed in this article. The same is true all over Wikipedia. The standards have evolved over time to the point that most experienced editors will delete most external links that are added. If we added every website that someone (usually the owner of the linked website) thinks should be linked, we would have long lists of links that would dilute the focus on those few websites that really should be pointed out.
By the way, most links are added by people referencing their own articles, like you did. That is generally considered not to be a proper thing to do. If the article is good and relevant, someone objective will add it. If you add your own article, it is highly suspect.
Editing this encyclopedia is a community task. People add, and thankfully, people prune as well. Personally, I do not think your article should be linked. That is my opinion and only my opinion. I acted on my opinion. If you want, you can choose to add the link to your article back if you think that the policy has been misapplied by me. I will not delete it twice (though I suspect it will be deleted by another editor in relatively short order).
Feel free to question me further.
-- DS1953 talk 03:51, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
- Feel free to remove the Nolo link if you think it doesn't merit inclusion. As I said, I tend to agree with you on that. Just make sure to put a comment in edit summary to explain that you believe it simply duplicates what is already in the article. -- DS1953 talk 04:05, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Limited liability company. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 guideline 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, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. BradV 03:58, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
By the way, since I saw the message on this page about the article on Robert G. Clark, Jr., I was curious about it and read it. That is a remarkable set of accomplishments. I made a few clean up changes but I am puzzled by what you meant in the last sentence which reads "his none relenting compromising approach". I started to change "none relenting" to "unrelenting" but it seems strange to use the word unrelenting as a modifier of compromising, so I was unsure what you were getting at. You may want to take a look at it again. -- DS1953 talk 04:14, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Where to add new talk posts
[edit]By the way, on my talk page and on the talk page of Limited liability company, you add your text at the beginning of a section. The customary way to add material is at the bottom of the discussion so that someone reading from top to bottom gets the picture in chronological order. -- DS1953 talk 04:25, 11 July 2008 (UTC)