User talk:138.217.71.147

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Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. 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. -- Solipsist 08:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, I was under the impression that everything in Wiki has to link?? Helper138.217.71.147

Well no actually. Some links are good, but overlinking is discouraged. In particular, the policies on external links are quite restrictive (that's not to say there aren't piles of bad external links lying around waiting to be cleaned up). Even within an article it is not necessary to internally link every word that can be linked, just those concepts that help to expand on the topic in question. -- Solipsist 08:37, 25 September 2006 (UTC)