User talk:Jpaee423

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see

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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! seav 23:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edit to Igbaras

I re-removed the link that seav removed and whicih you restored. As a rule, self-published links and online portals are not acceptable links on any WP article, whether or not these links are commercial sites. One of the reasons for this is because there is a potential conflict with Wikipedia's policy on verifiability, which means that as much as possible articles should be backed by neutral and independent sources. In the interest of fairness, I also removed the links found on the other article you mentioned. For your guidance, please refer to the external links policy page for more information about acceptable links on Wikipedia articles. And if you happen to find any similar links elsewhere, please feel free to edit such articles yourself. Don't hesitate to ask me, seav or other Wikipedians for help in case you need some clarifications. Thanks. --- Tito Pao 13:20, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

As a follow-up, such links are acceptable if the websites are notable in their own right. Can you give an instance where a major newspaper (national or local) or a major magazine has featured igbaras.com or igbaras.net? Because if not, adding the links to those sites will be seen as spam by many Wikipedia contributors. Remember, just because something is useful does not mean that we can add it to Wikipedia. To give an example, the yellow pages is useful, but it doesn't mean that we should create yellow pages in Wikipedia or add telephone numbers to the articles about various companies. I'm sure that Igbaranons, especially those outside the country, would find these two community websites useful, but usefulness is not the only criteria for adding links to them. --seav 13:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)