User talk:Tsthanos
Hello, welcome to Wikipedia. Are you a Lord of the Rings fan?
August 2011
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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Aikido techniques 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 article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:07, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
It is obvious that there is not any advertising! In addition, it took me a considerably long time to gather all this material, since there is NO other similar website, not only mentioning the complete syllabus, but also illustrating the techniques! However, it is your website and you are the one who decide whether or not to include it. In either case, as you probably understand, at least include a similar website (if you find any) so as the readers can also see the techniques visually apart from just reading their names.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsthanos (talk • contribs) 19:10, 31 August 2011
- Wikipedia belongs to you just as much as to me. I'm nobody special. I removed the external links from Aikido techniques because in my opinion they violated the guidelines external links normally avoided. If you think I made a mistake, I would suggest carefully reading WP:ELNO, and then going to Talk:Aikido techniques and explaining why you think the link does not violate that guideline. Wikipedia works by consensus, so if you can convince other editors to agree with you, they will support adding the links.
I would also encourage you to to submit the link to http://www.dmoz.org, the Open Directory Project. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 19:23, 31 August 2011 (UTC)