User talk:80.167.137.230

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added to the page Ben Stein do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. 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.--Childzy ¤ Talk 21:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Bulls & Bears. 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 with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you.--Childzy ¤ Talk 21:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I was removing them per [1] the links add no encyclodpedic value to the articles --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Look i dont like throwing guidlines at new users but just look

  1. Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article.
  2. Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: the link should be directly related to the subject of the article. A general site that has information about a variety of subjects should usually not be linked to from an article on a more specific subject. Similarly, a website on a specific subject should usually not be linked from an article about a general subject. If a section of a general website is devoted to the subject of the article, and meets the other criteria for linking, then that part of the site could be deep-linked.

--Childzy ¤ Talk 23:07, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

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