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I apologize as I didn't see until now that someone else tried placing this link. I do feel it is of great value to the military community. But, I respect your opinion.

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Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then 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. --Aude (talk) 20:35, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


Other accounts mass adding http://Militaryavenue.com link:

-- Siobhan Hansa 13:25, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Siobhan: Thanks for explaining this. I do apologize and did not intend to spam. I am interested in being involved with Wikipdia and am now learning how to do it correctly. Please accept my apology. I will not add links to militaryavenue as I have been doing. I honestly thought I was within the bounds and adding a value. What can i do to remove militaryavenue from the spam list for wikipedia. I hope that I have shown good faith in moving forward correctly as I learn the process. thanks - dan

Hi Grandrapidsdan, Thanks for responding and taking the time to check out our policies. The pages you are listed on are not a list of Spam sites, sites like google, myspace and buy.com are listed. It's simply a set of working pages to document our history. Removing information from them means that we no longer have documentation of what has been done and makes it much harder for us to understand how often we get things right or wrong, what has been looked at in the past and (eventually we hope) what the best approaches are to building the encyclopedia.
Wikipedia's list of identified spam sites is kept at: m:Spam_blacklist with discussions at m:Talk:Spam_blacklist (and archives). Your site is not on any of those pages. I hope this reassures you. If you find there are negative affects of our document pages we would appreciate hearing about how it impacts you. While we want to stop inappropriate links on Wikipedia we are not trying to upset the reputations of sites that happen to be listed on our working pages. -- Siobhan Hansa 02:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)