`  == Pygmy goats ==  You said...  ``The harm in providing a link is that it is explicitly forbidden by Wikipedia policy and guidelines, specifically WP:SPAM and WP:LINKSPAM.  Note that WP:SPAM doesn't require that the website that is promoted be commercial; links to charities, personal websites, and commercial sites are all equally spam.  External links must meet the criteria laid out in WP:EL.  The very fact that your reason for wanting to keep it in is because you got hits off of it is the evidence that it's spam.    ``  My reason for wanting to keep it in is because I get hits from it and messages from people who say I enjoy my site - therefore the reason I enjoy getting hits is because I enjoy the fact that others are benefiting from my site and are enjoying it themselves.   Who wrote these Wikipedia WP policies and guidelines? I can accept that you may wish to curtail links to commercial sites, and possibly links to unreliable personal websites. But to curtail links to charities seems a bit OTT.   Also, I'm sure most of the ``external links`` I've seen on Wikipedia articles should be removed under these rules. For example, what about the link to the Pygmy Goat Club? Surely that's a commercial site, as you have to pay to be a member of the club?`