User talk:GHoeberX

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page Ruud van Nistelrooy do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.--Ytny (talk) 12:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

It's not that I'm trying to control everything (and remember WP:CIVIL and WP:AGF). I am not suggesting that you're spamming Wikipedia, but it's a fan site, a non-English site at that, and doesn't meet WP:EL's standards for reliability. Thanks. Ytny (talk) 13:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what you mean by "other external links are 10 times worse", but I urge you to read over WP:EL again. Fan sites are not considered reliable sources of information, and the external link section is mainly for official sites or links that provide basic information such as stats, which the other external links do a good job of already. And while many articles do contain foreign language links, they're used when there are no adequate English language links, which isn't the case here - Ruud is well covered by the English-language media. Ytny (talk) 15:52, 1 May 2007 (UTC)