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May 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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 as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because 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. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 17:02, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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Hello, I'm not quite sure how I'm not following Citations rules. In most of the recent edits, I am simply updating dead links to the new correct ones. Encyclopaedia Iranica's website has changed and all the links to its old ones need to be updated. Please let me know.

Re your message: You are doing far more than updating already existing links. You are adding them to articles in these examples: [1][2][3][4][5][6] You adding them in reverse alphabetic order is also very spam-like. Please stop just adding links. -- 18:32, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

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