User talk:Otispa

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Hello, Otispa, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Spam

rockhead (aka:Geologyguy), good u r watching my op-eds,your first comment was re the content of my webpage oiljetpump.com. I notice the Schlumberger dictionary is added to several articles... the schlumberger web page is a STRICTLY commercial page with information. I have no problem with such an approach. What i have a problem with is rockheads who favor one commercial site over another.

secondly, i decided to add a comment from an AAG web page to see what you would then do. it was also deleted using a different pretext. I will appeal your actions unless your deletion of the AAG link is restored by Feb 28/07. opa — Preceding unsigned comment added by Otispa (talk • contribs) 16:31, 15 February 2007

Please see WP:CIVIL and read the spam links provided to you below. Wikipedia is not a directory of links. If oiljetpump.com is your site then you are simply not allowed by Wikipedia policies to link to it, we're not here to promote your business. The GSA conf link added to Ordovician was to a slideshow ?? with no context. Now before you start calling people names (rockhead), I'd suggest that you explore a bit and discover how Wikipedia works. Tha also goes for making threats - "I will appeal your actions unless your deletion of the AAG link is restored by Feb 28/07." Just who do you plan to appeal this to. It would be much better to explain the reason for adding the link and engaging in a civil conversation with other editors. If you decide to just charge ahead and re-add the links and continue to be uncivil here - you will quite simply be blocked from editing. Think it over. Cheers, Vsmith 19:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see WP:SPAM -- your muliple linking of a commercial web site to many pages - especially unrelated pages, is spam and is being deleted. Cheers Geologyguy 00:17, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Vsmith 19:00, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ok rokhead... you say If oiljetpump.com is your site then you are simply not allowed by Wikipedia policies to link to it, we're not here to promote your business so i say ...

If "Schlumberger" is your site then you are simply not allowed by Wikipedia policies to link to it, we're not here to promote your business, "Schlumberger".

You are aware that Schlumberger is a "for profit" commercial enterprise, no? So please provide more clearly the difference between referencing to an article residing on the Schlumberger web page and referencing to an article residing on oiljetpump.com??

ok, for the GSA page, i will reference you to slide 11 of http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/viewHandout.cgi?uploadid=6 and it reads "Upper Ordovician Zone, Clean Carbonate, Western Latvia"

and what may i ask was the article about?????

da ordovician, no??? or yes????

but you say it lacked relevancy??? please explain....--Otispa 00:15, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

First, the general topic, "PERMEABILITY CORRELATIONS FOR CARBONATE & OTHER ROCKS" is hardly appropriate for a general encyclopedic article on the Ordovician. The fact that your PPT has one slide containing data from the Ordovician certainly is not relevant to this article. Most of your paper is equations and tables that are not pertinent to this article. There are tens of thousands of articles and papers that mention Ordovician - they are not here either. Second, as Vsmith has pointed out, it is your paper. Wikipedia policy specifically prohibits your adding it - even if it were germane to the Ordovician article, which it is not. See the other links that Vsmith has provided to you. As I said in my edit summary, if you have relevant content to add, feel free. Promotional links, however, are not welcome, and do not in themselves constitute content. Cheers Geologyguy 17:11, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lactic Acid

I deleted your link to a commercial website's white paper in the article on Lactic acid because commercial white papers are used to promote a technology, not to present research. As such, it is not an appropriate link in a Wikipedia article. You do realize that people can search google for your product and website and find your interactions on Wikipedia? Is this how you want to present yourself and sell your product? It's almost as if you are one of your competitors trying to make you look bad. KP Botany 16:23, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]