User talk:Aliciab11

December 2023

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. Annh07 (talk) 11:58, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Annh07 seems to be concerned mostly about https://blissfulplans.com/, which you added to a couple of pages. First, if you do happen to be associated with that website, you should understand that what we call WP:REFSPAM (putting a URL into a ref for an article) has a really low chance of being clicked on. For an article like Wedding, the chance of someone clicking on the link is around 0.005% of page views, or (for that article) about one person per month. All URLs in Wikipesia are set to Nofollow, so it produces no SEO boost. In other words, spamming Wikipedia is a waste of your time.

If you're not hoping to promote that website, then let me say that I appreciate your copyediting help, and other volunteers are less likely to revert your changes if you use stronger sources, such as a newspaper or magazine article. WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:30, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi , I just created links related to the pages and i am not promoting any page . Hereafter i will add magazine and newspaper articles Aliciab11 (talk) 04:12, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a good plan. Websites can be okay, but news (and books, or anything a teacher would recommend to students who are learning how to write a per) is usually a safer choice. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:00, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]