User talk:Computerhistory

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia as you have been doing with computerhistorymuseum links. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. All your contributions to Wikipedia have been spamming of links to this site. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 06:21, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bob, adding links to your own site is strictly forbidden per WP:COI and WP:EL. As previously mentioned, your account has existed for the sole purpose of putting links to your site across Wikipedia pages. This is considered spamming, and is forbidden on Wikipedia. Even after being warned you did it to another 3 pages today. Usually accounts that exist for the sole purpose of spamming links are banned outright. You were given a courtesy with the warning, and are being given another courtesy now. Links and references to content on your site will be added to Wikipedia by other Wikipedia contributors finding value in the content on your site, as a reference to a specific passage in an article they are editing (such as already existed in the Babbage Engine section of Charles Babbage when you added that link again along with 2 other links in the external links area). Not by someone involved with the site spamming links they think people might be interested in - this also violates spam policies on advertising. If you continue to do so, a report is filed and this account/ip will be blocked. If you wish to make actual contributions to Wikipedia in the form of participating in the normal contributory/editing process (i.e., improve the description of semiconductors and light, Babbages difference engine, etc.), please feel free to stick around and do so. I'm positive, given your position at the museum, you'd be a valuable asset at Wikipedia for contributing and improving current content. But adding links to your own site is not part of the process. Likewise, please be advised that links to copyrighted material (such as brochures and marketing material) is also forbidden per Wikiepdia's copyright policies. You can refer to a brochure as a reference, but not actually link to a copy of it. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 16:07, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bob, if you have permission by the copyright holders, you may want to provide proof of that on each page of said material. It'll be helpful for other editors that want to be able to link to the material on your site without violating copyright policy. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 16:27, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just wanted you to see, an editor has just integrated one of your desired links as actual info within an article at Gene Amdahl‎ with this edit here. So rest assured, people find your site valuable as a reference and will add links to it on their own. Look forward to your further contributions. One more thing I forgot to mention, make sure the contributions aren't stating things about the museum (i.e. coi again). Trust me, as a person involved in several major websites, I had to go through the same process of learning. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 16:48, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you have direct explicit permission in respect of old manuals and so on, then

i) Clearly indicate this on your site along with any original attribution or copyright notice ii) Give a contact where the permission can be confirmed. iii) Lodge a formal letter confirming the permissions with the the relevant contact within the Foundation, (see WP:COPYREQ

Off wikipedia you are welcome to campagin for sanity in copyright laws ;) Sfan00 IMG (talk) 20:15, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]