User talk:Alexc89

October 2016

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Bookmaker. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. GermanJoe (talk) 19:43, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Alexc89, as Mean as custard already explained on their talkpage, the addition of external links to commercial websites (and in general) is restricted on Wikipedia - see WP:EL and WP:SPAM, especially WP:CITESPAM. A commercial service provider is almost never a reliable source about their own services. Such sites' main purpose is obviously the promotion of their services, not factually correct and unbiased information. The usage of similar problematic links in other articles is not an argument to add more of them. If you notice the addition of such non-reliable sources, please feel free to suggest their removal on the article's talkpage. Best regards. GermanJoe (talk) 19:53, 12 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Alexc89. We welcome your contributions, but if you have an external relationship with the people, places, or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest (COI). Editors with a COI may be unduly influenced by their connection to the topic, and it is important when editing Wikipedia articles that such connections be completely transparent. See the conflict of interest guideline and FAQ for organizations for more information. In particular, we ask that you please:

avoid editing or creating articles related to you and your family, friends, school, company, club, or organization, as well as any competing companies' projects or products;
instead, you are encouraged to propose changes on the Talk pages of affected article(s) (see the {{request edit}} template);
when discussing affected articles, disclose your COI (see WP:DISCLOSE);
avoid linking to the Wikipedia article or to the website of your organization in other articles (see WP:SPAM);
exercise great caution so that you do not violate Wikipedia's content policies.

In addition, you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation (see WP:PAID).

Please take a few moments to read and review Wikipedia's policies regarding conflicts of interest, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing and autobiographies. The editor who uses the pseudonym "JamesBWatson" (talk) 14:06, 13 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]