User talk:MariaRegExpert

December 2012

Hello, I'm Acroterion. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page Food and Drug Administration, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Acroterion (talk) 17:43, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Food and Drug Administration. 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. 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. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:23, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to our guidelines on external links, we generally do not add links to the kind of resource you were trying to provide. We are building a reference work about the subjects themselves (such as the FDA): we are not providing a "how-to" guide nor a directory of URLs. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:55, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]