Talk:Gym floor cover

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Hi Femto, thank you very much for your input and your time to actually outline your point of view. This article was initially created to educate people about gym floor covers as a product. I believe it deserves a separate page in Wikipedia since it's a unique product that many organizations (mostly non-profit) have a need for but are unaware of its existence.

With this being said, if you remove links that give Wiki readers a comprehensive example of what gym floor covers are like or the original inventor's site, you're limiting people's understanding of the topic. Instead of being seen as a utility equipment with a purpose, it's being portrayed as a raw material, literally a piece of plastic. I think it takes away from what this originally was meant to be.

Unfortunately, Wikipedia has more articles about different types of plastic than objects (like gym floor covers) produced by our culture as a result of technological progress. That's why you see so many internal links pointing to the pages with polymers. If Wiki had more pages about school or gym supplies then internal linking would be different. That is why external linking (which you have removed) had an additional purpose to provide a bigger picture.

Covermaster.net has several useful pages like http://www.covermaster.net/features_benefits.html or http://www.covermaster.net/gym_floor_covers.html with comprehensive technical details that no other site is offering in this industry. I guess it's just a somewhat biased view whether you want to see Wiki as a dry academical source or as a live snapshot of our culture. I hope this is good enough justification why I'd like those links back. Please, let me know if you have any questions. Russie. 20:20, 04 December 2006 (EST) (204.92.14.98)

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>> created to educate people about gym floor covers as a product

I don't doubt that the topic is notable, but sorry, I can't help but this sounds a little like "promotional lobbying" to me.

>> I think it takes away from what this originally was meant to be.

In case you mean that the article was primarily created as a place for links to a company website, taking away the links will take away from it, obviously. We can describe a product without linking to commercial suppliers.

>> If Wiki had more pages about school or gym supplies then internal linking would be different.

That's the point. External links do not change that. The article will never improve beyond being a business directory this way, and that's not what Wikipedia is for.

All I see at the covermaster.net website is a company advertising its products. So, inline links to their main page or links to their product description pages are not appropriate. It will suffice for encyclopedic completeness to mention the company by its name as the inventor. Femto 20:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)