User talk:Scuberdiver100

April 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the pages Playa del Carmen, Dos Ojos, Sailfish, Whale shark and Cenote 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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 articles' talk pages before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. TJRC (talk) 17:45, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Cave diving. 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 guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. Thank you. RexxS (talk) 14:25, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Sailfish. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because 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. TJRC (talk) 01:48, 14 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain

I understand your concerns regarding spamming but please explain why on the sailfish page there is a link to sailfish fishing and after you click on that link the first thing you see is a big BOOK NOW. I opologise for the other links as I am new to wiki but would like to point out that there seams to be no differance in the link sailfish fishing or sailfish snorkeling. If you could explain how we could attach links like the sailfish fishing that would be a great help as we are trying to promote an enviromental message.

For starters, please read the guidelines that have been pointed out to you in the warning messages above. Understand that Wikipedia is not a collection of links, and that there are guidelines for external links that need to be complied with. If you still believe that your link complies, explain.

You may find that, given your entire edit history consists of adding commercial links, and no edits of substance, an editor may be more reflexive in reverting your external link additions than he would with those made by an editor whose history does not consist entirely of spamming the encyclopedia.

Finally, with respect to the comment "we are trying to promote an enviromental message," you need to understand that Wikipedia is not a forum for you to promote anything. Any links added (or any edits, for that matter) made for the purpose of promotion have a very high likelihood of being reverted. TJRC (talk) 14:57, 15 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]