User talk:EWDes
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Cape Cod do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, 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.Template:Do not delete --SquidSK (1MC•log) 00:37, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
I have read the guidelines, and I thought the links were appropriate. I'd be grateful if you could explain why you believe otherwise, or suggest a better approach. I am not a spammer. I know the link rules are pretty involved, and I am new at this. The links went to pages online at a new site, www.gofishn.com, that are articles from an authoritative fishing encyclopedia (Ken Schultz's Fishing Encyclopedia, published by Wiley) that recently went online under license from the publisher. I based my contribution on a two articles in that set, summarized their context for the Cape Cod Wikipedia article, and then linked to the articles for more detail. Did you actually click through to look at the articles? They are actually built in media-wiki, which is pretty interesting though not necessarily material here. Perhaps I should have handled the attribution in another way. If so, I'd appreciate your insight.
In any case, I did mention all this on the talkpage, so I will see what response I get there. My motivation is simply this: the Cape Cod article barely mentions fishing, and fishing is one of the richest and most important aspects of the Cape's current economy and appeal as well as its past history. I grew up in part on the Cape and naturally have an interest in this page.EWDes (talk) 12:52, 1 January 2010 (UTC)