User talk:Simulationgaming

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Game, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Game. 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 web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Gwernol 20:28, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 22:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hm.. I have just seen your comments. I added the reference to the journal. This subject matter of this journal includes almost all of what is contained in this entry. It will be of central interest to readers of the article, just like the other references provided. I hope that you will agree. Thanks. --Simulationgaming (talk) 22:56, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sorry but all you are doing is advertising that journal. It is fine to use a specific journal article as a cited source for information added to an article, but it is not okay to use an external link simply to promote the journal itself. I suggest you read our guidelines on external links more carefully. Thanks, Gwernol 23:16, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

First on your question about citing. You should, of course, cite a journal article when you are adding new information to an article or if there is existing information in an article that is not currently sourced. There would be little point in adding citations to information that is already sourced.

On the second question: "How does one indicate that a journal exists, without promoting it?" the answer is: you don't. Wikipedia's purpose is to create useful articles about a subject, not to act as a list of related journals, websites or other information sources. If you want people to know about your journal, I suggest submitting it to [1] or a similar directory site whose purpose is to act as a repository of links. Thanks, Gwernol 23:43, 29 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]