User talk:Alpinewanderer
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Lepontine Alps. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 04:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Melcous: Thank you for the time to check my changes. I'm sorry that you considered them as inappropriate. I noticed that previous editors put incorrect links to the mountains which are not related to the Lepontine Alps, it is at the very least misleading. Also the list grew very quickly making it not encyclopaedia style. There are 1282 named peaks in the Lepontine Alps. All of them are sorted and mapped on the linked page. I truly believed that having them as a reference would be beneficial for readers and a much better option than growing the list inside the article. Living in this area I was updating many sources with relevant information. If you decide that this is a conflict of interests and the link is inappropriate then I would comply with your decision. Peakvisor (talk) 04:26, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. If you think the link has encyclopaedic value, then the best thing to do is go to the article's talk page and suggest its inclusion and then other editors can review and if they agree, add the link. Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines say that you should not add links to your own website. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 04:28, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- @Melcous: Sure, I'll suggest it there. Thank you! Peakvisor (talk) 04:37, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hello; you will need to change your username, since it is that of your website. Please make a request at either Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS to do so. As noted, you should not directly edit about your website; please review conflict of interest and paid editing. 331dot (talk) 15:37, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- @331dot: Yes, after that story with the Lepontine Alps I had to stop contributing as most of the time anything related to the mountains was falling under the conflict of interest rules and I don't want to violate the terms. Surely, I'll send the name change request, back in the days naming it so seemed like a good idea :-)
- Hello; you will need to change your username, since it is that of your website. Please make a request at either Special:GlobalRenameRequest or WP:CHUS to do so. As noted, you should not directly edit about your website; please review conflict of interest and paid editing. 331dot (talk) 15:37, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Melcous: Sure, I'll suggest it there. Thank you! Peakvisor (talk) 04:37, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply. If you think the link has encyclopaedic value, then the best thing to do is go to the article's talk page and suggest its inclusion and then other editors can review and if they agree, add the link. Wikipedia's conflict of interest guidelines say that you should not add links to your own website. Thanks, Melcous (talk) 04:28, 25 April 2018 (UTC)