User talk:Sardaka

Hello Neilrobertpaton! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dirk Beetstra T C 11:37, 9 March 2007 (UTC) Getting started Wikipedia tutorial • The five pillars of Wikipedia How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Attribution • Neutral point of view • Notability Conflict of interest • Autobiography Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Citing sources • Footnotes Image use policy • Copyrights • Fair use External links • Spam • Vandalism Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry What Wikipedia is not • Deletion policy The community Building consensus • Resolving disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Things to do Be bold in editing • Help develop an article Pages needing attention • Peer review Join a WikiProject • Translating articles Cleaning up: General • Spam • Vandalism Miscellaneous Categories • Disambiguity • Stubs User pages • Talk pages Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

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Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —Moondyne 11:42, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Are you the Moondyne who left me a note telling me to stop adding "inappropriate" links to Wiki? The moderator, Dirk Beetstra, said it's okay to add links to the text, especially when they are relevant to the subject. The links I have added were not spam, were not aimed at increasing search engine ratings, are not commercial and are completely relevant to the subject of the article. What's wrong with them? I'm not trying to have a fight with you, but I need to know about all this. Beetstra said it's ok to put links in the text, so what's the problem? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Neilrobertpaton (talk • contribs) 08:34, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

By "moderator", I'm guessing that you mean User:Beetstra. If so I can't see where you asked and he "said its okay" to add such links. Regardless, in my view they are inappropriate links and are not OK. For example: http://gymshots.tripod.com/gymnast1.htm. The links are commercial (ie. contain Google ads) and are not allowed per our policy on external links as Wikipedia is not a link directory. If you are keen to contribute to the encyclopaedia, and you actually own the photos, you could of course upload some of them to Wikipedia with appropriate licensing tags (see WP:TAGS). Then you can insert the images directly into the articles. In the meantime, please do not add any more links like these to Wikipedia. —Moondyne 10:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Hello agian. I did not say that this was the way to add the links, I asked you to consider adding content, and when the site you are adding contains information that is added, you could use it as a reference. Adding a phrase 'pictures of her can be found here' is, IMHO, not adding content, but a short and quick way to spam a link. Please read through the pages linked in the welcome-message, they provide some information regarding these subjects. Please take some attention to read WP:EL, WP:RS and WP:A, they tell a bit more about which sites provide suitable information (pictures sites hardly ever do).

I notice these pages contain a lot of pictures, you could consider uploading some pictures. Hope this helps. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 11:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

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Abusive language

Please do not use abusive language as you did on Talk:Siddha Yoga, (see here). Take a look at Wikipedia:Etiquette for guidelines about how to behave on this site. Lumos3 14:43, 12 March 2007 (UTC)