User talk:GlobalSurfari

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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 collection 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, 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. Flowanda | Talk 23:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi GlobalSurfari - please don't add the links like http://www.surfrider.org/ and http://www.5percentblue.com to articles that aren't directly about those organizations/campaigns. External links on Wikipedia are supposed to provide further encyclopedic information about the subject of the article, not related projects. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a message at the bottom of my my talk page. Thanks. -- SiobhanHansa 02:57, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again. Thanks for leaving the message on my talk page. I missed the http://www.betruetoblue.com link when I looked at that page - as another editor has mentioned, it isn't appropriate either. As an encyclopedia we try to produce neutral articles. The articles we have on organizations are not supposed to be presentation pieces for those organizations (however noble their missions), so it's unlikely a link that simply goes to a program they run will be appropriate. We normally provide a link to an organization's official website, but we should not generally also be linking to nonprofit organizations' fundraising or awareness raising campaigns.

If the programs are particularly notable (by, for example, receiving significant national or international press coverage in mainstream press, or being awarded a highly respected prize, or perhaps being the subject of research by a well respected academic) and there is plenty to say about them they should get an article of their own. If not then a mention of them in the Surfrider Foundation article (without the external link) might be appropriate, especially if there is independent mention of them that can be used to show their impact and importance to the world.

If the links were appropriate the external links section would be the appropriate place for them. On Wikipedia the "See also" sections are for wikilinks to other Wikipedia articles that might be of interest to the reader, they shouldn't contain any external links. Hope that answers the questions. Let me know if not. -- SiobhanHansa 11:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]