User talk:Dmittleman

Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. The links you added to the page Psychology have been removed. Please do not add commercial links—or links to your own private websites—to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. Mwanner | Talk 21:09, 2 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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You wrote: "...what is the correct way to point people interested in psychology to the various professional psychology organizations?" The answer, really, is that pointing people to external sites is not what Wikipedia is here for (though, as our traffic grows, more and more people try to use it for that). Take a look at the links above for more info.

If you're talking about "professional psychology organizations", though, the answer is to create an article about the organization-- a link on that page to the organization's official site is acceptable, as is adding a ==See also== link to that page from related pages. I think you've already done this with ERDA, so the best thing you can do for Wikipedia (not for ERDA, remember) is to add your expertise to our articles.

As you can see, on many pages, External links, allowed to grow unchecked, grow into vast lists that resemble the results of a google search.

Just remember that the purpose of Wikipedia is to be as good an encyclopedia as possible, not to serve as a bulletin board where everyone can post their favorite websites. Happy editing! -- Mwanner | Talk 17:43, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]