User talk:Dcutt89
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Please stop spamming links to encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net; if you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Thanks. Parsecboy (talk) 14:54, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
- Hello. My apologies. I did not realize this was spamming. Just thought it was a nice resource for relevant articles. Would you mind pointing to where exactly in the this link you have provided that defines exactly what I have uploaded is spamming? Thank you!
- In many of the cases I looked at, the link you posted had less content than the wiki article. For example, what's the purpose of posting this link to SMS Emden? Our article is far longer and more detailed than the link you added, so why would readers want to go there? Same for this one on W. E. B. Du Bois? Or Dicke Bertha for Big Bertha; I could go on.
- As to the policy:
- Adding external links to an article or user page for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed, and is considered to be spam. Although the specific links may be allowed under some circumstances, repeatedly adding links will in most cases result in all of them being removed. (emphasis mine)
- The entire "Citation spam" section applies, particularly Citation spamming is a form of search engine optimization or promotion that typically involves the repeated insertion of a particular citation or reference in multiple articles by a single contributor. Often these are added not to verify article content, but rather to populate numerous articles with a particular citation.
- If you were using these to directly support material in the articles, it would be different, but apart from this discussion, you've made exactly zero edits to articles beyond posting these links. Parsecboy (talk) 16:39, 14 December 2021 (UTC)