User talk:Plandman
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December 2016
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Hello, I'm MrOllie. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added 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] MrOllie (talk) 14:49, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. MrOllie (talk) 14:52, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
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. MrOllie (talk) 14:54, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia External Links Project
[edit]You recently added a link to the article on Market segmentation. The link was Market Segmentation for Hotels by Xotels.
I just wanted to let you know that the addition of this link so inflamed one editor that he decided to delete the entire section of External links which included other links to professional associations and trade magazines etc. I disagreed with his decision and sent him a long message justifying why each of the links had been included - an explanation that was eventually accepted, allowing the links to be reinstated. However, this editor asked me to write a set of inclusion criteria and post it on the article's talk page. I acted on this advice and have posted up detailed criteria for links for that article.
One week later, a different editor came along and deleted all the links from the same page, apparently without reading the previous commentary or my set of inclusion criteria. I have decided not to pursue the matter further and the end result is that the article now has very few relevant links. It will have to remain that way for it is far too time consuming debating these issues with pedantic editors who delete before they think. My efforts to have deleted links reinstated have mostly been in vain, or at the best only given a temporary reprieve.
There is a group of editors who have formed the Wikipedia External Links" project with the stated mission of "improving the quality of external links." However judging by their actions, it is very clear to me that this group intends to eradicate external links from all articles across Wikipedia. They are very active at the moment and have managed to delete the entire set of links from at least four pages that I have been working on. I have looked at their editing histories - and this is all that they do - they go around finding pages and deleting external links.
I have no idea why you placed a link to a very poor quality article on hotel segmentation on the article. The quality of information in that article was very poor and conceptually flawed. But more importantly, if an link to hotel segmentation is allowed, it opens the flood gates - why not an article on baked bean segmentation, jelly bean segmentation, gardeners segments, bread buyers segments, cellphone segments, handyman segments, hobby craft segments, pigeon fanciers segments..... and potentially an infinite number of segments? No doubt you thought it was a good idea at the time. But your actions have inadvertently led to long lasting impact. In my opinion, the article is considerably poorer for having lost all its external links.
I implore you to think twice before adding extraneous external links to pages. It inflames many editors who react by deleting the entire section of external links. Your actions are impacting on other editors and are having a lasting, deleterous impact on the articles where you are active. Please do not be like these pedantic editors who don't think about what they are doing when they delete. I beg you to think carefully before adding new links.