User talk:GreatFireChina

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May 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page List of websites blocked in the People's Republic of China has been reverted.
Your edit here to List of websites blocked in the People's Republic of China was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (http://www.facebook.com) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 10:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Reply: I understand that you generally don't want external links. For this page, listing websites blocked in China, I think it's important to specify which URL is blocked. For example, before my edit, it was simply claimed that Google is blocked. However, www.google.com is not blocked. Other URLs, such as drive.google.com, are blocked. I have removed all the http:// from the URLs though so that they are not made into external links. I hope this is a satisfactory compromise.