User talk:Thecelticshaman
March 2009[edit]
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Celtic Neopaganism. 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. You've done this is several other articles as well, including Brigid, Labyrinth and Ogham. Pigman☿/talk 23:49, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
- Well, Tira, Wikipedia (WP) discourages adding links to your personal writings/websites, no matter whether you think it is applicable. Generally this falls under conflict of interest guidelines for WP editors. Additionally, the WP article on Brigid is not focused on modern interpretations but rather historic documentation and evidence about Brigid. The article you added was very much a modern Neopagan/Neo-Druid meditation/exegesis. While there is nothing wrong with that perspective, it's not really appropriate in this particular article. External links are intended to illuminate and provide further reading on a subject, preferably at an authoritative/academic level in an WP article like Brigid. Your article on Brigid focuses, essentially, on your personal perceptions of the goddess. Please note that the two other examples you chose from the WP article are largely factual in content, not opinion.