User talk:Petriheil

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Petriheil! I am Marlith, and have been editing Wikipedia for quite some time. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page or by typing {{helpme}} at the bottom of this page. I love to help new users, so don't be afraid to leave a message! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Marlith ^T/C 05:29, 15 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

December 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added to the page Call of Duty 2 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. — Dihydrogen Monoxide 00:19, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Call of Duty 2. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. — Dihydrogen Monoxide 01:39, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

However, I would not consider fourms revalent to an article on Call of Duty 2. Articles like these are supposed to be interesting to people who don't have any familiarity to the subject at hand. I hope this helps. Thanks. Marlith ^T/C 01:54, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you had selected the "News" at the top of the page - http://site.iwnation.com/action/content/view/full/118 section you would see that IWNation is more then just forums.

Petriheil (talk)

I am sorry, but from the point of view of Wikipedia:External links, these can be considered spam/advertising for IW forums/IWNation. Also, as this is meant to be a broad encyclopedic article, not a meeting point for CoD players, specific links like that one don't belong there. I don't believe the link to IWNation is relevant, as per the text you quoted. — Dihydrogen Monoxide 10:13, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you continue to read Wikipedia:External links it mentions, "Such pages could contain further research that is accurate and on-topic; information that could not be added to the article for reasons such as copyright or amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks); or other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article for reasons unrelated to their reliability (such as reviews and interviews)." and click on the News section on top of the front page, you will see that there is Reviews and Previews for CoD2. Petriheil (talk) 16:18, 14 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]