User talk:Stephen Goldstein

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Hello, Stephen Goldstein, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you.
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Thanks for the information. How do I put in an external link to a specific chapter in "Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers" on a contraceptive method without breaking the spam rules? This is a handbook which was published by USAID, WHO, and the Johns Hopkins INFO Project. The web version is provided free of charge. The book contains the latest evidence-based information compiled by dozens of experts and international organizations about contraceptive methods. The only reason that I put in a link to the Hopkins' site is that it has a lot of additional information about contraception. I would be happy to link to the chapters in the book and not link to the Hopkins site but just list the INFO project as a publisher. Would this work? You can see the handbook at www.fphandbook.org. Thanks for your help--Stephen Goldstein

My main concern with the external link is that it does not meet the criteria listed in Wikipedia:External links. Wikipedia policy encourages links to sites that:

contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks) or other reasons.
have other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as reviews and interviews.

My feeling with the information available from the Global Handbook for Providers is that any meaningful material should be integrated into the Wikipedia article condom or the Wikibook page Barrier Birth Control, instead of being left for an external link. Following this reasoning, the Global Handbook for Providers meets criteria #1 for Links normally to be avoided:

Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article.

I hope this helps you understand why many of your links have been removed. If you have more questions or disagree with this reasoning and would like to discuss this more, please bring it up on the talk page of the article, such as Talk:Condom, or drop me a line on my talk page. Lyrl^Talk _C 22:10, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]