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Hello, Rmrr, 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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External links
editPlease read Wikipedia:External links. Yechiel (Shalom) 16:13, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Spam
editPlease stop adding advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in atorvastatin. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. JFW | T@lk 15:47, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Amlodipine. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --CliffC (talk) 22:43, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Yechiel, Jfdwolff and CliffC. I'm a newbie and I'm starting to understand how wikipedia works for editors. In my opinion I'm entering useful information in other sites (this is why I put it in external links). In example, amlodipine.com has general information from that specific product: composition, news articles, product images and lots of bibliography... I really think this is relevant information. I've also seen that when searching cefalexin it has (in my opinion) non apropiated external links because at least one of them redirect to a pharmacy online. There's a difference, isn't it? (Rmrr (talk) 12:18, 20 June 2008 (UTC))
- Rmrr, Wikipedia rules are clear on this, "Adding external links to an article for the purpose of promoting a website or a product is not allowed". However, take a look at item 6 in Wikipedia:Spam#How not to be a spammer and the guidelines in template {{welcomespam}}. Wikipedia needs content, not links. I hope you'll stay and be a content contributor. I hear what you are saying about other promotional links in Wikipedia, these are an ongoing problem, and I have removed the one you mention. Editors here are volunteers and can't always keep up. If you report any you see, they will be looked at, and deleted if they fail WP:EL. Your argument is mentioned indirectly at WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS and I'm sorry is not a convincing one. --CliffC (talk) 15:13, 20 June 2008 (UTC)