User talk:Ryan889

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Hello, I'm Trivialist. I wanted to let you know that I removed an external link you added to the page FileHippo, because it seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Trivialist (talk) 14:43, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

As you were adding the same link to several articles, it appeared that you were spamming to promote FileKangaroo. Please see Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Thanks. Trivialist (talk) 15:15, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, I just thought I'd drop a note to explain why people are looking at the addition of links and various articles as spam and copyvio. The problem is that you can't just add links to pages and call them a source or put them in the external links. Most times the only time you can place a link to a specific program or site is if the page is about that specific product. In extremely, extremely rare circumstances you can add a link to another page, but that's almost only in cases where the product in question is so overwhelmingly notable and linked to the topic at hand that it makes complete sense for it to be linked. This is incredibly rare and would only be used in cases such as Steve Jobs and Apple, and even then most times the links aren't put on the entry. Please note that notability and popularity/usage are not the same thing. A website can be frequently visited and used, yet never pass notability guidelines or be considered notable enough to merit an article or a mention on a page. It doesn't matter if the website you're trying to add has ads on it- that's somewhat irrelevant. The problem here is the notability.

The problem with saying "why can you add links while I can't" is that the links and sources others use would forseeably pass notability guidelines and external links guidelines while the ones you are adding won't. Getting angry and accusing people of being hypocrites is not really a good way of trying to make your case. Also, saying that other pages should be removed because your entry wasn't accepted is not a valid argument for the page to be accepted or the other pages to be removed. The existence of another page doesn't mean that the page in question passes notability guidelines. It might just mean that the page hasn't been seen and deleted yet. For example, I can't see where the current version of

• On a side note, I've tagged your userpage for deletion since it's being used to rant against other editors. This doesn't mean that you can't continue to edit, just that the userpage itself will be gone. Posts such as that one that disparage or attack people aren't seen as kosher on Wikipedia.
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• I also have to ask... since you mentioned that you are a webmaster, are you the owner of FileKangaroo? If so, then you will probably want to read over our
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• Hm... to have an article we'd have to have coverage in reliable sources to show its notability. Stuff such as coverage in newspapers and the like is usually how this goes. For example, if someone wrote an article about you in PC Magazine or on their website, we could use that to show notability as long as it wasn't a press release or just 2-3 sentences long.
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• Although on a side note, you can continue to work on the copy of the article in AfC. As long as you're still making edits on the entry, the page won't be easily deleted. When it comes to AfC most of the time the only way the page is deleted is if it's copyvio, abandoned for 6+ months, or is overwhelmingly promotional. I don't see where the entry is promotional and it doesn't look like it's copyvio, so no fears on that end. (Copyvio would be if you were to copy stuff directly from the website. Even if you wrote it, that's still seen as technically copyvio on here.)
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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/FileKangaroo.com, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Hi there, I'm HasteurBot. I just wanted to let you know that Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/FileKangaroo.com, a page you created, has not been edited in 6 months. The Articles for Creation space is not an indefinite storage location for content that is not appropriate for articlespace.

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Hello Ryan889. It has been over six months since you last edited your

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 14:42, 13 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Avast Antivirus. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website 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 page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz ^Talk/_Stalk 03:34, 13 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]