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and information on Gibraltar. Apparently it has been deleted because it is 'advertising" The Gibraltar Magazine contains adverts in exactly the same way The Gibraltar Chronicle and all the other publications and radio stations mentioned do so I fail to see why it is considered invalid and 'deleteable' whereas the other listings are legitimate. Please review your policy.
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Hi - to the Gibraltar entry under "communication" and Newspapers/periodicals I have added a link for The Gibraltar Magazine to the links for other publications in Gibraltar however it has been deleted twice. The Gibraltar Magazine is a legitimate publication which contains a wide variety of features
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The problem, in part, is that you added an external link to the magazine within the body text of the article - and this is not permitted in Knowledge (XXG); external links should only be used as either references, or in the external links section. Note that the sentence about Gibraltar Chronicle
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I am confused as to why The GIbraltar Magazine is deleted however it is added whether just to external links, without link in the body text - wherever - other publications with less content (see page 7 of mag on web page for contents of The Gibraltar Magazine) are included. Other media, weekly
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Because you have already tried to add the link twice, at this point I would suggest that you do discuss the edit on the talk page of the article before making the edit again - perhaps explain there that you now realise why an external link in the body was inappropriate - and hopefully then,
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Hello and welcome to Knowledge (XXG). We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Knowledge (XXG) does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:
247:'newspapers' etc are included in external links, and yet The Gibraltar magazine includes more info such as history etc... is it simply a policy that 'newspapers' weekly or not are allowed, magazines because they are less frequent are not??? 60:
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So, in the body text (the communication section), you should put just "The Gibraltar Magazine is a glossy..." (with no link at all), or "The ] is a glossy..." - which will make a
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but if I add just "The Gibraltar Magazine is a monthly magazine" to the list of other publications and media (no link at all - under communications) this also gets removed
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on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of
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Okay thanks for your suggestions. I will write the article and see what happens. It's become something of a mission now!
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Hi Meioow, could I suggest you post on the article's talk page explaining why the link should be included?
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The number of links currently presented on the article is excessive as
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to the non-existent article. If you could find sufficient
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the article regarding the magazine. You may want to see
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if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome!
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Policy on neutral point of view
Guideline on spam
Guideline on external links
Guideline on conflict of interest
new contributor's help page
The five pillars of Knowledge (XXG)
How to edit a page
Help pages
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How to write a great article
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my talk page
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Gibraltar Chronicle
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Ckatz
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