User talk:Fred de Jong

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Festivals in Aruba. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 00:22, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi and thanks for your message on my talk page. The first problem with the links you added is that wikipedia articles should not include links to external websites in the main text - see WP:EL. The second problem is that these are websites with which you are associated, meaning you have a conflict of interest and should not add them to the encyclopedia yourself at all. As the above notice says, if you think these links have value for the encyclopedia (rather than for your website) then you may suggest their inclusion on the article's talk page and then if another editor agrees they can add them appropriately. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 03:52, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Also, when you leave a message on a talk page (whether of a user like me of an article), please "sign" your post by adding four tildes (this symbol ~) at the end. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 03:54, 3 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]