User talk:Emmjo0508

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The Wikipedia tutorial is a good place to start learning about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and discussion pages using four tildes, like this: ~~~~ (the software will replace them with your signature and the date). Again, welcome! JesseRafe (talk) 19:21, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

July 2018

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please don't spam the same link on seemingly every page of the entire PA legislature... JesseRafe (talk) 19:24, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Emmjo0508, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania links on PA Legislatures

Hi, responding here and on my talk page to make sure you see it. One of the biggest rules Wikipedia has is verifiability and notability. For this reason, one of the generally-accepted best practices is finding third party sources that mention the fact you are trying to add, usually from reliable news sources. If there is no news coverage, then it is usually considered not particularly notable. On the other hand, if you only have the website about the fact you are trying to add, that is a primary source and not objective. Furthermore, if you only use your account to push links for an organization that you identify yourself as working for then that is considered spamming, even if it is for non-commercial purposes. There's a lot of good info on these policies in the links above. JesseRafe (talk) 12:16, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

On Bob Casey Jr's site there is a citation to the NARAL scorecard (see citation 70) They are also a nonprofit organization that publishes a scorecard. Wikipedia also shows that John Barrasso and Roy Blunt received an A rating from the National Rifle Association, another organization with a scorecard.

NARAL and the NRA are well-known organizations. That's covered by what I said above about "notability". JesseRafe (talk) 15:11, 17 August 2018 (UTC)