User talk:Chad.gillard

August 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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) 17:16, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for explaining the issue with my add. Is the following link comply with Wiki Guidelines?

[Story of Aebleskiver]

I used it as a benchmark. I'm not sure how this link complies, and my link does not. No doubt the content is great, but according to the guidelines, shouldn't it be part of the article itself and not a link? I'd love to get your take on this. Thanks! Chad.gillard (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Chad, welcome and I'm sorry you've run into so much trouble trying to contribute here. I'm not sure about the already existing link (I didn't take the time to look closely), but yours failed WP:SPAM because that guideline says, "A video is a spamming video if....It has links on the video page—the page that plays the video—that go to a commercial site or to another spamming video, even if it is only one link among many legitimate links." The page you are linking to has links that go to a corporate website (http://www.bluebellinn.com), as well as linking to a page selling cooking products, and thus cannot be allowed. Sorry again this has been so much trouble for you, but if you know a lot about Aebleskiver, please-add the information to the article, so long as it's backed by reliable, independent sources. Further questions? let me know! Fleetflame 08:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]