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A Note About Advertising and Conflicts of Interest

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Due to the rising profile of Wikipedia and the amount of extra traffic it can bring a site, there is a great temptation to use Wikipedia to advertise or promote sites. This includes both commercial and non-commercial sites. You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interest guidelines.

If you have additional information to add to the article, why not simply add it rather than having an external link?

Archive Jul06-Sep07

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making wiki more useful (re: currenttimeindia.com)

Hello VersaGeek, It is good to see that you are a dedicated contributor to Wikipedia. I appreciate your work here. I just disagree with you on one point. Information about any particular place is equally important to its time. Local time of a place is as attached to a place as you are to Wikipedia ! Information about a place is incomplete if the information about its local time is not given. I remember adding this link to Jodhpur wiki about its local time (along with restaurant and their famous cuisine), and next thing i see is that local time information is removed. anyone looking at information of Jodhpur is equally likely to check its local time than he is to know what are famous restaurants in the area. If you think that local restaurant information is necessary, local time is equally important. Please do not remove this link from a places wiki. Thank you for your cooperation here. Regards, MD. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.214.26.3 (talk) 15:33, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not a directory or travel guide, adding the same link to 80+ articles is spamming and since all of India is GMT+5:30 it is sufficient to state this in the article(s) with an internal wikilink to Indian Standard Time, rather than linking to an outside source. Your domain has been blacklisted because it was aggressively spammed. Best Regards, --Versa geek 16:10, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You agree that time information is important for information along with information of a place. Having the user go to wiki for IST (Indian Standard Time) first, does not tell him the time of the place. How does it help ? All India is in in GMT+5.30 is something you know, not everyone. That is exactly what the purpose of the link is. Still do not understand the logic of removing local time information from wiki. Please do not remove this link. Kindly reply and confirm. Regards, MD. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.214.26.3 (talk) 17:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe this link meets our External Links Guidelines, and as such - it shouldn't be in articles. In addition, placing the link in 80+ articles is a clear violation of our rules. Nevertheless, I have requested that members of our External Links Project consider the issue. Please continue the discussion here. --Versa geek 23:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

External Links

If you are going to remove external links i post then remove all external links, lets be fair

The links i post are not spam because they are on topic —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.11.175.104 (talk) 23:14, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The link you post is promoting a commercial product, not providing encyclopedic information. I have removed all of the commercial external links from that article, including yours. --Versa geek 23:26, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

u missed one —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.11.175.104 (talk) 00:38, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dental editing question

Please respond to a prior posting, which has now become somewhat passover, or old news. It concerns the fact that I'm very new to posting. Mostly I'm concerned about violating spamming rules on Wikipedia, so I've posted the article to my http://www.dentalvisits.com/blog and I'm very much hoping that you would review it and advise me as to the correct manner to proceed for future reference. Dr. Judy Johnson (www.dentalvisits.com) 05:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dentalvisits (talk • contribs)

I think your content could be integrated into existing pages on dentistry, but I'm not a dental expert, so I'm not sure which page(s) it would be best in. I suggest you leave a message on the WikiProject Dentistry talk page, asking where it would be best to integrate the content. When you do add the material, you'll want to pay close attention to the tone of your writing, it should be Expository writing, in the Third person. --Versa geek 12:47, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RFA Thank You Note from Jehochman

		Ready to swab the decks!
		Another motley scallawag has joined the crew. Thanks for your comments at my RFA. Arrrgh! - - Jehochman ^Talk 05:18, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New user

Versageek,

I'm a new user to Wikipedia and have been working on an article for free machining. I would appreciate if you could take a look at the article and provide some feedback or suggestions to make the article better.

Thanks, Blapcewi 04:52, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Warning:Javascript security issue

Hi! I need to inform you that I've protected Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Scripts/Add_LI_link because it allows users to add code to the javascript of other users. If you are an admin, you are still able to edit it, but if you are not an admin, please copy and paste it into your userspace to continue modifying it. We can set up a message at the old javascript page telling users to change their links. If you need help, please contact me or User:Eagle_101. Thanks, --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟ ʇs 00:44, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you are going to remove some external links then remove all external links, lets try to be fair

If you are going to remove some external links then remove all external links, lets try to be fair —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.11.163.40 (talk) 02:52, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not a Spam

Hello, I added http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance one external link emaxhealth.com/72/

Just wanted to let you know that this is not a promotion, and advertisement, but has nationwide health insurance news coverage state by state.

Thank you. Armen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.82.168.174 (talk) 03:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

FamousAmericans.net -- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography

Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske and Stanley L. Klos Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 is not spam. We went through this before in May and it passed the muster. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography and its edits are a legitament reference for many of the bio's on Wikipedia (quite a few of them taken directly from the Virtualology Project itself as evidenced by the pages including Virtualology Edits to the original work). So would you please explain what the problem is now referencing this historic biographical work? ---Damselerset —Preceding unsigned comment added by Damslerset (talk • contribs) 22:56, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's a fine reference when used as such. I'm not arguing it's value as a reference, but rather that you seem to be adding it (mainly as an external link) to most if not every article that Wikipedia has in common with Appleton's. That is considered spamming. It would be better to enhance the quality/content of the Wikipedia articles using the content from the Virtualology project and reference that material with a link. In cases where the content is largely from Virtualology already, then using it as a reference for that content is fine. If you don't have time to make the article improvements yourself, then offer the link on the article talk page, or perhaps on the WikiProject Biography page as a source for additional information. --Versa geek 23:44, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, Versageek, you've done so much on this issue. Please feel free to join in this WP:AN discussion of Virtualology and Wikipedia.

--A. B. ^(talk) 18:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

RfA

I considered not spamming talk pages but not saying "thanks" just isn't me. The support was remarkable and appreciated. I only hope that I am able to help a little on here. Please let me know if I can help you or equally if you find any of my actions questionable. Thanks & regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:37, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your vote

Thank you for participating in my RfA, which passed with a vote of (53/0/1).

As a token of my appreciation, please accept this bowl of tzatziki.

I feel honored to be trusted by so many of you. Wikipedia is such a large community, that my acceptance in the face of such large numbers truly is humbling. I will use my new tools to continue the tasks for which you entrusted them to me.

Gratefully, EncycloPetey (talk) 18:34, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rezon8 Living

I notice that you expressed interest[1] in this on November 6th. Therefore I guess that you might also want to weigh in with your opinion on the AfD at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Rezon8_Living#Rezon8_Living. If not, sorry for bothering you. In any case, cheers. SaltyBoatr 01:21, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Medical Billing

Hi, I noticed that you removed my edit that I added to Medical Billing. After further review I came across the link guidlines,something I should have noticed at first (does not jump right out at you either haha :) ) I would like to have the site www.medbillingforum.com added somewhere to medical billing if possible. Now that I understand that a site rep should not add their own site it will not happen again. (Sorry) I will post the site on the discussion page and ask that you reconsider as it is a information site that requires no fee or membership. Membership is required to take part in discussions but NOT to read and benifit from them. It is a new site and tons of free and correct information is forthcoming that will benifit medical billing professionals.

Thanks for your time and reconsidering this.

Joe Burton Medbilling www.medbillngforum.com