User talk:Nana Bjørnlund

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Hello, Nana Bjørnlund, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Your links to visualgeography.com

What you're doing is commonly known as spamming. My guess is that all of your links will soon be removed and your account blocked. --RenniePet 17:03, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

I added links to my site as I actually think they would be useful to people. I only added links to the pages I found would be of interest; for e.g. Haiti there are very few visual impressions to be found, and I have many recent pictures of decent quality. What precisely is the problem? The amount of links I made, or the fact that they are links to my own site? It is not really clear...

Nana

Hello Nana,

I am not all that experienced in Wikipedia; have been contributing here for less than a year, but I will try to explain as best I understand the situation...

To have a link on a Wikipedia article it has to be more than just "useful". The linked-to site should provide additional information that is important, or is confirmation of the information in the article. Links to sites, such as yours, which include Google ads are especially regarded with suspicion, since it is assumed that your motive for posting the link here is to earn money, not to provide important information.

For a more authoritative view see here: Wikipedia:External links.

Good luck with your site. --RenniePet 10:32, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey RenniePet,

Thanks for your reply. I see what you mean, and I see why it is suspicious that I want to link to my own site. But who decides what is useful and what is not? Before I went to, let's just stick to one country, Haiti myself, I was searching like crazy for information about the country, and I particularly wanted to know what it looked like. I almost found nothing. So I do feel the images I have are important to share, and the written information, which is little, I admit, certainly back up the facts that are written here on this site. I still suspect that it is the number of links I wanted to make that caused the trouble, and I should probably just try to link once, and then see what happens.

Hav det godt, og tak igen for svaret!

Nana

I have removed the link you added to Haiti. Thank you for your sincere interest in contributing to the encyclopedia. However, the links you have added are problematic in several respects. 1) They are to your own website. Adding links to your own website is a "conflict of interest" (see WP:COI) and is strongly discouraged. The acceptable way for links to be added in this situation is to propose the link on the talk page of the relevant article. Then other editors can decide if it is appropriate to add it. 2) The link is probably not appropriate to add under any circumstance. External links should lead to extensive, encyclopedic resources that provide information beyond what could be provided in the article. While your website is nice (and certainly useful for people searching out such images), it is neither encyclopedic (authoritative) nor extensive. If you are really interested in sharing your photos, consider donating them to Wikimedia. That way they can be used free in articles in Wikipedia. In fact, if you look at the bottom section of the Haiti article, you will notice that there are several links to different Wikimedia projects (quotes, dictionary, books, images, etc.) Here are the images that are tagged with Haiti at the moment. Nposs 19:52, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Nposs

Ok, fair enough, and thank you for explaining it so thoroughly. I will check out the Wikimedia option instead.

All the best,

Nana

October 2007

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Yemen‎ . 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 policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Nposs 17:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry for the Yemen thing, it was a mistake. This is the first time I'm using Wikipedia this way, and I make many blunders when trying to add something. Corrected most of them, but this one slipped, I guess.

Nana

Thank you

Hi Anupam,

Thank you for the welcome and the useful information. I appreciate it.

Nana