User talk:Tttumul

April 2012[edit]

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 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 article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. DMacks (talk) 18:14, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to PESIT. 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 article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Wikipedia is not the place to post links to "casual reviews". Its an encyclopedia. Lynch 7 18:17, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Lynch & DMacks first of all I'm new to wikipedia (had created an account long time back, but started using it recently) so please pardon me for randomly putting external links on pages ("spamming" in other words). What I was trying to do was not just promote my website but was sharing the links (of articles on my website) which I thought might be genuinely helpful for the student community, as they're reviews of the respective colleges. As pointed by Lynch I'd put these links on PESIT as well as other handful of pages and intended to do so for a lot more college pages. But I stopped as soon as I got some warning to prevent spam. The main reason we put reviews on our website is that the current educational scenario in India is not great, with plenty new colleges having cropped up & all of them showing themselves in a pretty picture, it is easy for a student (an engineering, medical or MBA aspirant) to fall for them. But what's actually happening inside a college only students studying there knows. So we visit colleges personally, talk to students there and gather a general opinion about it and put it up on our site. We don't intend to earn any revenue out of this and just want people to make an informed decision before paying 6 digit fees.

So in order to make people aware do you guys think should I post these links on talk page of corresponding college? or that also might be considered as spamming? Please reply. Thank you. Tttumul (talk) 18:06, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, considering that the link you are posting wouldn't probably be considered reliable (no offense), I'd advise against putting such links everywhere. The article page or talk page isn't meant to be a collection of links. As noble as your intentions may be (I appreciate that), it is inappropriate to put such links on articles. Thank you, Lynch 7 03:29, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]