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== <span id="LINK" ></span><span id="LINKS" ></span>External link spamming ==

#<span id="1" ></span>'''Review your intentions.''' Wikipedia is not a space for personal ''promotion'' or the promotion of products, services, Web sites, fandoms, ideologies, or other [[Meme | memes]]. If you're here to tell readers how great something is, or to get exposure for an idea or product that nobody's heard of yet, you're in the wrong place. Likewise, if you're here to make sure that the famous Wikipedia cites ''you'' as the authority on something (and possibly pull up your sagging [[PageRank]]) you'll probably be disappointed, because Wikipedia uses [[nofollow]] on all external links, thereby causing search engines to effectively ignore them.

#<span id="2" ></span> '''Contribute cited text, not bare links.''' Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, [[WP:NOTLINK|not a link farm]]. If you have a source to contribute, first contribute some facts that you learned from that source, then [[WP:CITE|cite the source]]. Don't simply direct readers to another site for the useful facts; add useful facts to the article, then cite the site where you found them. You're here to improve Wikipedia—not just to funnel readers off Wikipedia and onto some other site, right? (If not, see #1 above.)

#<span id="3" ></span> '''The ''References'' section is for references.''' A [[WP:REF|reference]] directs the reader to a work that the writer(s) ''referred to'' while writing the article. The ''References'' section of a Wikipedia article isn't just a list of ''related'' works; it is specifically the list of works used as sources. Therefore, it can never be correct to add a link or reference to ''References'' sections if nobody editing the text of the article has actually referred to it.

#<span id="4" ></span> '''Don't make a new article for your own product or Web site.''' Most often, when a person creates a new article describing his or her own work, it's because the work is not yet well-known enough to have attracted anyone else's attention, much less [[Wikipedia:Independent sources|independent]] and [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources|reliable]] sources against which the content can be [[Wikipedia:Verifiability|verified]]. Articles of this sort are usually deleted. Wikipedia does indeed have articles about popular products and Web sites, but it is not acceptable to use Wikipedia to ''popularize'' them.

#<span id="5" ></span> '''Don't gratuitously set off our spam radar.''' There are certain stylistic behaviors that will say "spam!" loud and clear to anyone who's watching:

#*<span id="51" ></span> <span id=How_not_to_be_a_spammer_top_of_list>'''Adding a link to the ''top'' of an unordered list.''' This is an A-number-1, red-flag, hot-button spam sign. It suggests that you want people to look at your link ''FIRST FIRST FIRST!'' You wouldn't butt in at the head of a queue; don't put your link first.</span>

#*<span id="52" ></span> '''Adding a link that's snazzier than any of the others.''' If there's a list of products that gives just their names, and you add a product with a short blurb about how great it is, we'll all know why you did it. The same applies to adding a list item that is in a larger or otherwise more prominent font than the other items.

#*<span id="53" ></span> '''Adding many links to (or mentions of) the same site or product.''' Going through an article and adding the name of your product to every paragraph where it seems relevant is just going to attract the revert button.

#*<span id="54" ></span> '''Adding the same link to many articles or many wikis.''' The first person who notices you doing this will go through all your recent contributions with an itchy trigger finger on the revert button. And that's not much fun. Adding links across our other language editions is a bad idea too.

#<span id="6" ></span><span id="How_not_to_be_a_spammer_talk_page" ></span>'''If your product is truly relevant to an article, others will agree—try the talk page.''' We usually recommend that editors [[WP:BOLD|be bold]] in adding directly to articles. But if the above advice makes you concerned that others will regard your contribution as spam, you can find out without taking that risk: describe your work on the article's talk page, asking other editors if it is relevant.

#<span id="7" ></span> '''Do not add an external link to your signature.''' However, external links to Wikimedia projects are exempt from this rule. For example, [http://meta.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Meta-Wiki]. (Although [[Help:Interwiki link|Interwiki link]]s are preferable to external links for that purpose.)