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I'm sorry I hadn't read these guidelines. While I can appreciate a need to restrict superfluous advertising, the link I added was actually to a unique academic resource about Christianity in China, where a large number of articles will be a free resource. If you are to have this policy, do you need a better way of policing it? As you don't insist on contributors registering an email address, how can you enforce this policy fairly across your site? Thank you.
- Hi! Wikipedia is run by volunteers such as yourself. People delete or revert changes if they believe they're unconstructive or go against policy. Often this is a matter of opinion. You can discuss this with the user who reverted the change by going to their user talk page (often the second link in their signature, or click on their signature and then click "discussion" at the top) or, often better, by discussing it on the talk page of the article (go to the article and click "discussion" at the top). You can say things like what you just said, to try to persuade people. Also please listen to their point of view, and try to reach consensus. If it's "going to" have free resources but doesn't yet, people may not be keen on including it yet. In my opinion, literature that you have to pay for (e.g. ordinary books) is OK to use as reliable sources to verify (i.e. as footnotes and references), but is to be avoided in the external links section at the ends of articles. --Coppertwig (talk) 13:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)