User talk:Damian Brown1

March 2024

Hello, I'm Annh07. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to .NET have been removed because they 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. [1] Annh07 (talk) 10:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to .NET. 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. Annh07 (talk) 10:42, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thanks Annh07. I am a new member of Wiki. So, if I add external links to the sources I should mark them as nofollow? I didn't understand what was wrong with the Blog article link added to the references. I used the information from there to contribute to the .NET text about .NET Aspire.

Or I can add only links to the Microsoft documentation for the .NET topics?

Thank you for your time and patience. Damian Brown1 (talk) 10:47, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Damian Brown1,

The external link you added to the article is a link spam. A source that needs our guidelines as given in WP:RS. These commercial sites are spam, not reliable sources. Please read WP:ELNO and WP:LINKSPAM. Thank you. Annh07 (talk) 10:52, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]