User talk:Windmiller

Welcome!

Hello Windmiller, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you have any questions, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! HGB 00:25, 4 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

External links

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in RealPlayer. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 that you are affiliated with, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Yamla 12:46, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You said: "Recently we have moved our site to a new domain and so I have been going through the Wiki pages that either cite our page or have links and updating it. In doing so I have changed the URL. In most if not all of the cases this has caused you to completely remove these as spam. Example would be the FLAC page. The site I run is informational and no $ is made from the site and so I dont understand why it is being viewed as spam after being on these Wiki pages for anywhere from 6 monthes to a year without any problems. Becuase the goal of our site is to inform existing and new users to lossless audio Wiki is a great place for the site to be linked. Just trying to understand. Thanks"

Please see WP:EL. Blog and news sites are generally not considered appropriate. Your site is of a much higher quality than most, though, so the best way to get your site added back would be to ask on each article's discussion page if anyone has any objection. If nobody speaks up within a week, go ahead and add the link back, noting that this was discussed on the talk page. You are free to ignore this advice, mind you, but I am concerned that, while a high-quality site, the links really aren't appropriate on the Wikipedia (as all blog and news sites are not, though you'll often find articles violating this). --Yamla 16:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]