User talk:216.213.8.25

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[edit] Bleepingcomputer.com

Your recent updating of external links to bleepingcomputer.com brought to light the extent of link spam that had been added for that site. I've removed about 80% of those links and wanted to let you know why. Some people, when they find link spam, will automatically remove all instances of it they find. I prefer to gauge each link individually with regard to the article to which it is attached. In most cases the links were either only partially relevant to the article (a catch-all guide that only lightly touches on a topic, for instance) or else didn't really add very much to the article. In those cases, I removed the links as "link spam." In several instances, though, I left the links since they were both directly on-topic for the article and added sufficient new information that it would be worth a reader's time to visit your site. (Oh, BTW, you really do have a way of making things easy to understand.) About half of the time that I removed links, your site did have some additional information not contained in the Wikipedia article, but the bulk of the material was redundant to the article. In cases like this we would love for you to add to the article itself, giving everyone the benefit of your additional knowledge, but an external link isn't really justified. If you would like to see exactly which articles have been affected, the easiest way is to check my contributions for edits made today with the edit summary of "rm link spam." If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me on my talk page. Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 06:13, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] March 7, 2006

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 as we drive for print or DVD publication; see the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. Image:Monkeyman.pngMonkeyman(talk) 14:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)