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General note: Spam on ANSI ASC X12 . using TW

April 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added to the page ANSI ASC X12 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. Nposs 13:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. This subject brings back memories: I spent a couple of years on EDI projects back in the 90s. Seems like it's all a lot simpler now with modern tools. Like you said, it's odd that the link you added would be removed while the two other product-related links would remain, so I 've removed those. The main page explaining Wikipedia's policy on links is Wikipedia:External links. Although some articles don't comply at present, the idea is to limit links to the essential minimum. DMOZ is an example of a site that aims to collect links - and you may want to submit the links there, only I can't tell you how to do that - but Wikipedia has a different goal: building a free encyclopedia for everyone.

As far as listing your company or products on Wikipedia goes, it's really best to let someone unassociated write the article. The Wikipedia:Conflict of interest page explains the pitfalls of writing about yourself or your products. Help:Contents is the top level help page and everything should be buried under there somewhere. Wikipedia:Questions has a list of places where you can ask questions, and what kind of questions they usually handle. And you can always ask another editor. For questions about the contents of a particular article, it's usually best to try the article talk page: for the Electronic Data Interchange article, that would be at Talk:Electronic Data Interchange.

I hope this helps. If there's anything important that I've not answered, please let me know. Wikipedia is a big place, big enough that nobody knows everything about all of it. But if I can't help you, I'll probably be able to point you to someone, or somewhere, that will be able to answer. Best regards, Angus McLellan (Talk) 10:20, 5 April 2007 (UTC)