User talk:Dharma8
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, 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 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. High on a tree 16:13, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to funeral. 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Graham87 13:39, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Editing in Wikipedia
[edit]The reason why your edits have been removed so far is that you have been adding external links to the same site over many articles - this is spamming, whether or not you intended it to appear that way. External links should always be added at the end of a list - if you add them at the top, people will think you are jumping the queue. If you want to add external links to sites to which you have a close connection or what in Wikipedia is known as a conflict of interest, suggest your links on thetalk pages. However Wikipedia vastly prefers encyclopedic content to links - all content should be verifiable and the easiest way to cite your sources is to use Wikipedia's footnote system. Also the Manual of Style is good for guidance on style for Wikipedia articles. Your site seems to have interesting source texts - if they can be linked in very relevant places that would be good. I don't know much about Buddhism but to take an example from something I am familiar with, a link to the full text of the poem The Raven is entirely appropriate on its article.
There is a lot to learn about Wikipedia and its social conventions. It is considered polite to explain your edits with an edit summary so it is easy to see what changes you have made. Also to sign talk pages (like this talk page or an article's talk page), you use four tildes like this: "~~~~".
I think Perth is the best city to live in Australia - the people are friendly, the climate is good and it isn't too big ... yet. Graham87 14:23, 16 September 2007 (UTC)