User talk:Jimmy2bob

Please refrain from adding advertising based website links to articles, as you did to the Holme Valley and Holmfirth aticles. Such links are not permitted on Wikipedia and will be immediately removed by any editor who sees them. It is noted you replaced the link in the Holmfirth article after it was previously removed, though the edit summary stated it was not a permitted link. Richard Harvey (talk) 00:14, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Richard. I note that you have removed the link on both occasion. If you browse the website, you will note that it is certainly not a spam website and offers information for the businesses in the Holme Valley along with forth coming events. Not only something that would help the economy of the area, but would be of great interest to anyone wishing to visit.

Could you explain your role here in Wikipedia, as I would very much like a referral on this - if I ad the link again, no doubt you'll just remove it.

Hi! My role here is creating and editing articles, providing images, locating and checking referenced sources where possible and watching for vandalism to articles, just the general everyday stuff etc. The website you are attempting to link is in fact an advertising website! It states so on its home page IE:- Valley Bulletins Limited is an advertising company based in the Holme Valley. The main role of the company is to make money from advertising businesses that primarily exist to sell products or services. That is what is referred to as Spam. Additionally the home page currently shows a featured company that is a business offering a service, specifically holiday accomodation. See this link for guidance on what external links are to be avoided. Many links of the type you wish to place are removed on a daily basis by whichever editor spots them on numerous article; the Peak District article is one that springs to mind. You do have the right to query if the website is permitted as an external link. The best way to do so would be to place a query on the relevant articles talk page. Once you have done so I will post some messages to various website administrators and a Bureurocrat to visit the page and read your request. The final say would be up to a consensus by them. Oh! one final suggestion:- when you post a message you need to place four tildes at the end IE: ~~~~ that will then automatically assign your username and datestamp it. Richard Harvey (talk) 18:52, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]