User talk:Investored
Investment Links
[edit]You realize that you've opened a wikipedia account specifically to push your site right? Dross82
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Reverse mortgage. 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 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, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. All these links are being removed. --CliffC 18:16, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
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All the content on the site has been written and vetted by financial experts and is intended to help educate people on their finances. Because the content resides on the website I thought it was against the copyright to add any of it to wikipedia so the intention was to make it available through external links. I'll read more about it but there was no intention to spam the site only to provide more education.
- On almost any topic, there are web sites containing more information than the corresponding Wikipedia article. However, we try to encourage more content to be added to Wikipedia while keeping external links to a minimum. To do this, volunteers regularly review articles and prune external links.
- One method we use to determine whether a link should stay or go is how it was added to the article. In this case, your link was added "bare" (no additional content was added to the article), across many articles. This approach always raises a red flag; if I had not noticed and removed those links, someone else likely would have.
- Wikipedia needs more content, not more external links. The best way to incorporate a link that points to an external web site is to contribute cited text - add information to the article that can be learned from the link in question and then cite it per normal guidelines. This is the happy medium that we strive for. See WP:COPY for your copyright considerations. I'm hoping that you or someone in your organization will contribute more to Wikipedia.
- I hope this explains what happened and doesn't leave you with any bad feelings. I can see that your site is not a commercial one. To help avoid problems like this in the future, here are some guidelines on external links:
- WP:SPAM#How_not_to_be_a_spammer information regarding link spamming (in particular, see point number 2 in this guideline)
- WP:EL External Links guidelines
- WP:CITE Wikipedia citation guidelines
- --CliffC 22:09, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Additions of http://.investored.ca
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