User talk:Dazp1970

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Hello Dazp1970! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! Mr Stephen 21:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC) Getting Started Wikipedia Tutorial How to edit a page The five pillars of Wikipedia Manual of Style Be bold in editing How to write a great article WikiProjects Getting your info out there Cite your sources Neutral Point of View Point of View Verifiability Uploading images Image use policy Getting more Wikipedia rules Policy Library Getting Help New contributors' help page Where to ask a question Help Desk Frequently Asked Questions Getting along Wikiquette Civility Sign your posts Wikipedians Conflict resolution Getting technical Cleaning up vandalism Pages needing attention Peer review Utilities Village pump

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in Vignetting. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links as long as the content abides by our policies and guidelines. 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 if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. Mr Stephen 21:20, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why remove my resources links?

You wrote:

You have today removed all of the links to external sources that I have placed.

The links all point to my website, not because I am spamming, but because the information on my website compliments the articles to which they refer.

You will note that my website is very content rich, has virtually zero advertising and I sell nothing. Whereas I do not gain from adding these external links, users of Wikipedia gained further sources of relevant information from their presence.

I would like to know why you have removed them?

Darrell.

I removed the links because of the Wikipedia policy on External links (Wikipedia:External links). Specifically see, Links normally to be avoided #1 and #3. I felt that your site did offer some helpful advice to some of the articles, but that it was redundant to the information already in the article, or what should be in the article once it is fully written. I am not diametrically opposed to your links, but I would offer that self-links are better placed by other editors. If you feel that your resource is really helpful, you should place a note on the article's talk page. If other editors agree, then they will add your link. SteveHopson 01:27, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your message on my talk page. Yes, talk pages and discussion pages are the same thing. Please don't worry about getting things exactly right at first. The links in the welcome box above contain pointers to the various policies and guidelines. As SteveHopson has pointed out, at first sight your links didn't meet the guidline at Wikipedia:External links and the policy at Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, and you should talk to the other editors on the article's talk page. I doubt that anyone would complain if you improved the article by adding the information that is in your web pages and not currently in the article (see also WP:CITE, and be bold). Mr Stephen 10:30, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your response on my Talk page. I agree with Mr. Stephen above and would add that we were all new here once. We greatly appreciate constructive additions to articles and it sounds like you have a lot of experience and knowledge that would benefit the encyclopedia. We also end up spending a lot of time just policing changes to articles because there is so much vandalism to Wiki. I you decide to post notices on the discussion pages for articles to which you would like to add links, please let me know. I would like to support your efforts. SteveHopson 21:49, 9 September 2006 (UTC)