User talk:Politicalpoet

February 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Joan of Arc do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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, then 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. --Akhilleus (talk) 07:14, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Political poet, the problem is not, as you put it, that "external links to sites that contain more indepth information on a subject were forbidden." The problem is that you appear to be the author of the poem you're linking to, and thus the external link (and the listing on Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc) appear to be self-promotion. As I indicated in the earlier message above, you need to discuss the insertion of this link (or of the listing without the link) on the article's talk page. Since there's no sign that the poem you're linking to is a notable work, I don't think you'll get consensus for listing it. (Please note that "notable" is a piece of Wikipedia jargon. Basically "notability" means that independent third parties have written about the subject in question, so to demonstrate the notability of this poem, you could point to a book review in a major newspaper or literary journal. For more details, see Wikipedia:Notability.) Cheers, --Akhilleus (talk) 16:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)