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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Donation, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see
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I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Gwernol 18:31, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Volunteer. 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 nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. 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. Gwernol 18:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
GreatNonProfits edit
Hi there Iastudilloi. Did you read the Wikipedia guidelines on external links that I left you above? External links on articles should be used sparingly and to link to additional information about the subject of the article. While I'm sure that GreatNonProfits is a worthy and laudable site, it doesn't contain information that helps the reader understand more about Donation or Volunteers. Wikipedia articles are not a venue to promote particular sites or help people find them, no matter how good those sites are. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of non-profits around the world - we could not possible add links to them all to these articles, so we shouldn't give any of them preferential treatment. Sorry, but these really aren't appropriate links for these articles. Thanks for understanding, Gwernol 18:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)