User talk:Demetrioscz

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May 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Sri Chinmoy has been reverted.
Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.rickross.com/groups/srichinmoy.html.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 14:47, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Karunya University

Greetings. I see you are a relatively new editor. I wanted to let you know that a university of the size of Karunya will certainly be deemed notable. Indeed, wikipedia regularly keeps articles on high schools, there are close to de facto notable.--Milowent (talk) 03:49, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

I am concerned about your adding {{notability}} or {{afd}} tags to articles about school that not only are notable, but also happen to be in India. I don't mean to assume bad faith, but I really suggest you read WP:BATTLE. Erpert (let's talk about it) 07:17, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No battle stuff here, I just thought they werent notable, but ok, feel free to take them if you like. --Demetrioscz (talk) 11:38, 12 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just remove this whenever you have read it: (I dont know where to contact you): On the Sri Chinmoy page - Can you check the link to Sri Chinmoy being invited to hold meditations at the UN by U thant, there is nothing in that link indicating that he was invited, on page 4, second paragraph (in the pdf version) Sri Chinmoy is mentioned but not connected to U Thant. Also there is a massive linking to "Hindu Guru Nigamananda" 10 links to one book! could you clean that up? someone must have had a fit and just put in 10 links, why is there even a whole chapter dedicated to Nigamananda? At most there should be 1 link under books. And what is a "true story". Vivvvvek (talk) 00:37, 10 July 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vivvvvek (talk • contribs)

Links

Thanks for your comment, Demetrio. Linking to very broad topics - like United Kingdom or India in articles about rock bands or individuals does not add to the article, IMO. Of course, if you feel differently you are welcome to edit as you see fit. --BwB (talk) 08:53, 11 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I saw your comment on BwB's page. Overlinking detracts from the important links. If a read sees a sea of links, it's harder for them to find the ones that will tell them more about the topic in which they're interested. See WP:OVERLINK for more information. Will Beback talk 04:59, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

And to save you going to the policy page, here is the relevant text:

"What generally should not be linked Shortcut: WP:OVERLINK

An article is said to be overlinked if it links to words that can be understood by most readers of the English Wikipedia. Overlinking should be avoided, because it makes it difficult for the reader to identify and follow links that are likely to be of value.[2] Unless they are particularly relevant to the topic of the article,

Avoid linking plain English words.
Avoid linking the names of major geographic features and locations, religions, languages, and common professions.
Avoid linking common units of measurement,[3] and dates (see below).
As a rule of thumb, link on first reference only.
Do not link to a page that redirects back to the page the link is on. --BwB (talk) 20:24, 12 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted discussion content

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.--Richard Reinhardt (talk) 17:19, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That was a trivial matter to take to the ANI page. But thank you and I see I was correct in the removal. Talk pages have specific uses. No one is free to say what they want on these talk pages. Please see the policies relating to talk page use: Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. These have to be followed. The line in the lead says "Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views on a subject.". If you disagree with the policy you can talk about it on the talk page of that policy. --Demetrioscz (talk) 18:20, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]