User talk:Duane Frasier

License tagging for Image:Sacandagalake.jpg

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Bajau and Bugis

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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.

The external links I have added to Wikipedia have always linked to further information directly related to the article and never for advertising or promotion. The posting of the notice above was in response to links to specific pages on ethnic groups at www.joshuaproject.org which is also beginning to link directly back to specific articles at Wikipedia. The Joshua Project website certainly has a slant toward Christian Evangelical missions. However the statistical information it collects comes from reputable sources which they state and document. These include the CIA World Factbook, the Ethnologue (recognized as an authority on languages of the world and part of the international standard, ISO/DIS 639-3), maps from the UN and University of Texas, etc. They provide a compilation of these statistics in one convenient place and thus I linked directly to their articles on the people groups. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Duane Frasier (talk • contribs) 17:04, 29 September 2007

The method which you've added this links qualifies them as spam. See Wp:spam#How_not_to_be_a_spammer --Ronz 01:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

[1] --Ronz 01:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please be specific about which method you consider to be spamming. Duane Frasier 14:31, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I already have on Talk:Bugis, which you had already replied to before making your comment above. --Ronz 16:52, 30 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your civility, Ronz. Sorry you had to take the time to remove those links. I went to change them but you already had. Just for my understanding: Would then the two links at the Bonan page that link to travel sites also be spamming because they add little to the article and are actually travel agencies? I'm not being sarcastic here. I truly want to learn. Duane Frasier 00:25, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There's WP:EL and there's WP:SPAM. If a linked page contains little not already in the article, then the link should probably be removed per WP:EL. Spam usually refers to how a link was added to multiple articles. There is some overlap though between EL and SPAM. Hope this helps. --Ronz 00:49, 2 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]