User talk:Waabu

July 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Statistics 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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. and several other articles Favonian (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello, Waabu, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Statistics 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, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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. and several other articles Favonian (talk) 17:08, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Algonquian peoples. 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. Favonian (talk) 19:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Table of integrals

Hello. I've added to Wikipedia's table of integrals the link that you added to logarithm and someone else deleted.

It appears to me that it's a worthwhile external link and that the person who deleted it is unaware of its content but is concerned about a conflict of interests resulting from the fact that the person adding the link and the author of the external page are the same person. Michael Hardy (talk) 20:31, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't follow Michael Hardy's logic here. Whether or not "it's a worthwhile external link" to table of integrals, it is not a worthwhile link to logarithm, being of only very marginal relevance, so I wonder what the evidence is that the editor who removed it from there "is unaware of its content". It was quite rightly removed.

Also that editor is quite right to be "concerned about a conflict of interests", as all of your editing consists of adding links to your own work. Please read the section of the Wikpedia guideline on external links concerning advertising and conflicts of interest, which says, amongst other things, "you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent—even if WP guidelines seem to imply that it may otherwise be linked". It would also be helpful to read the general guideline on conflict of interest, and the guideline on what is regarded in Wikipedia as spam linking. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest JamesBWatson (talk) 10:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]