Investorz
Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia as we drive for print or DVD publication; see the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. 
Monkeyman(talk) 17:08, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Outside Links edit
I didn't notice any response from you regarding how the value of outside links is determined. Is more value given to sites that are larger and more established whether they are "for profit" or not? If that is the case, it undermines what the wiki system is trying to do. In addition any outside link should be able to be recommended and put into a queue for vote rather than deleted (with the accompanied canned response) by someone such as yourself. How about a little democracy here.. that is what the wiki system is all about.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Investorz (talk • contribs)
- Please see Wikipedia is not a democracy. -- Donald Albury(Talk) 13:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- The policy on external links is very strict due to the amount of spam, adwords, commmercial, and advertising links people try to sneak into articles. The first sentence in this policy partly answers your question of when to link externally: Not very often. Your links fall under this category, specifically points 2, 3, 5, and possibly 9.
- 2. any site that does not provide a unique resource
- 3. Links that are added to promote a site
- 5. Sites with objectionable amounts of advertising
- 9. A website that you own or maintain
- If you disagree with my reasoning, please discuss your objections on the talk page of the particular article where you would like to include the link.
Monkeyman(talk) 14:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- The policy on external links is very strict due to the amount of spam, adwords, commmercial, and advertising links people try to sneak into articles. The first sentence in this policy partly answers your question of when to link externally: Not very often. Your links fall under this category, specifically points 2, 3, 5, and possibly 9.
November 2009 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. MrOllie (talk) 12:32, 19 November 2009 (UTC)