Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added such as to the page Poole Pottery do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Teapot george ^Talk 13:19, 27 July 2009 (UTC) reply

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Poole Pottery. 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 the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. 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. Teapot george ^Talk 15:19, 27 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Hello,

Not sure why you're coming to me with this problem, re your external link. I suggest you make your case on the articles talk page: Talk:Poole pottery. Good luck. bodnotbod ( talk) 20:58, 27 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Links normally to be avoided include....Links to social networking sites (such as MySpace and Facebook),[2] chat or discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups), Twitter feeds, USENET newsgroups or e-mail lists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided Teapot george ^Talk 21:05, 27 July 2009 (UTC) reply

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Poole Pottery. 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 the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. 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. Teapot george ^Talk 18:35, 2 August 2009 (UTC) reply