User talk:Jballa1927

Hello, Jballa1927, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! SwisterTwister talk 21:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC) Getting started Introduction The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Editing articles How to develop an article Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page Article Wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles How you can help Contributing to Wikipedia Community Portal Join a WikiProject Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility

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What's the name of the page? The page may be locked from new users due to vandalism. However, I can make the contribution for you if you're willing.

SwisterTwister talk 21:35, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

 

Please respect External Links policy

Greetings. I know it's exciting to be able to edit pages and to think about how you can exploit that to drive traffic to your business, but external links in Wikipedia are not for promotion and must be directly related to the topic at hand, as per the External Links policy—which is not a very entertaining read, but we all should be familiar with it. Also, external links on Wikipedia are automatically formatted in a way that prevents them from affecting search engine rankings, in case that's what you were trying to achieve.

It's also inappropriate, and is considered vandalism, to edit a template, such as when you edited Template:Pervasive developmental disorders in order to add something to the external links section of multiple pages. Aside from being abuse of a template that exists for another purpose, the edit resulted in the link appearing in articles which aren't directly related to the topic of the site you were linking to.

Don't be discouraged from editing; just don't engage in "linkspam". :) —mjb (talk) 21:09, 31 January 2012 (UTC)