User talk:Hammerfist/Archive 1

May, 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page low back pain 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. WLU (talk) 21:00, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your sole actions appear to be the addition of external links to pages. These links have been removed by a variety of editors because they are inappropriate. Please cease adding the links, they contain advertising, LOTS of advertising, they provide instructions, they do not cite sources or attribute their content, it solicits money, and there's no real reason per the external links guidelines to keep them. The persistent addition of the links is spamming, and can result in the blocking of your account and IP address, and blacklisting of the website. Please cease. I have removed the links from all the pages you have added them to. WLU (talk) 21:37, 21 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Review policies. Start with a thorough review of the external links guidelines, what wikipedia is not is also a good one, verifiability and neutral point of view are both crucial, and based on the other postings on your talk page, notability is probably going to be useful to you. Normally a welcome template gives you a lot of examples of where to start reading, but I don't think anyone has placed one on your page. I'll put a specialized one below this comment - it should have the key policies for wikipedia in general and has extra links for external link spamming as well. Note that you will get virtually no respect from other long-term editors if your sole activity is adding external links to a single external website on multiple pages. You will get outright hostility if you replace those links once they are removed. If you do so when an admin is monitoring the page, you could easily be blocked.

If you really, really think that the floota page is useful as an external link, review the sections of links to be included and links to be considered, and see if it falls into any of the categories. I would venture it does not - they look like either generic advertising spam, or what I call the 'some guy's website' category - no indication of who wrote the page, how reliable and mainstream the information is, and what research it is based on. A further strike against the foota pages is the presence of advertising, which violates links to be avoided point five. In addition, they do not seem to be suitable to reference information as they do not appear to be reliable sources. You've been adding them to medical pages as well, which have a higher standard of reliability than most, for both sourcing and external links. If you have specialized expertise and wish to expand the pages in a useful manner, demonstrate this expertise through the addition of accurate, neutral information that is footnoted to reliable sources rather than adding a website to the EL section (one criteria is that external links should provide a resource beyond what the page would contain were it a featured article - the best content wikipedia has to offer and essentially 'finished' pages. The pages do not seem to do this). Also consider that wikipedia is not a how to manual, and shouldn't link to how-to pages.

If you're reading policies, you may also want to read no original research and talk page guidelines. A complete list of policies and guidelines can be found at WP:P&G and a simple ruleset can be found at WP:SIMPLE. I is a lot of reading, but you did ask and external link spammers tend to get rather rough treatment on wikipedia. WLU (talk) 00:41, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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