User talk:Chixtopia

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page

link is to a legit, public, non-profit women's writing group. i understand the name may set off your alarms, but it's a good and proper women writers' mailing list. thank you Chixtopia (talk) 18:59, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

link is to a legit, public, non-profit women's writing group. i understand the name may set off your alarms, but it's a good and proper women writers' mailing list. thank you. Chixtopia (talk) 19:08, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The questions you have to ask yourself, after reading

• What is the page about
• What is your link about

The answer: your link is about a specific group, the page about general groups. Thát is why groups.yahoo.com and similar groups-sites should hardly ever appear in external links sections, and that is what the bot above has been trying to tell you all the time. It has nothing to do with being commercial or what, it is simply inappropriate. Moreover, as you insist to include this link about a specific group, I suspect that you also might want to read