User talk:Brents1

September 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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 for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Since 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. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:08, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Colonel Tom Parker. 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 web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 04:16, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dead-link tagging

Thanks for helping to verify cited refs at Laura Branigan and alerting that some were links to dead sites. I made two changes to your tagging. First, please don't change the actual article-title or other metadata of a cited ref, for example, asserting that the New York Times included the string "DEAD LINK" in their own publication. Instead, just place {{deadlink}} after the ref (see [1], and the template itself for more information about how to use it). Doing so is both more standard and helps set some category flags to attrac others' attention. Second, the |accessdate= field has a specific meaning (see {{cite}} documentation). By simultaneously stating that a site is dead and updating its accessdate, you are contradicting yourself by asserting that you actually did verify the cited content via that ref that you say is dead. The deadlink docs also suggest a few places to try to find archived copies of the content if you're interested and have a few minutes to try. DMacks (talk) 03:12, 18 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]