Talk:Optical fiber connector

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Hi,

does anybody knows where SC, LC, ST stands for? I'm lokking for that information and can't find it. thanks!

Richard

I'm sure they stand for something, but it's probably lost in the sands of time.--A. B. 22:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Might take a look here.

Dustin 16:15, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Force Inc. link

I removed one of the links, Introduction to fiber connectors. It had some good material but it also appeared to be a front for Force Inc. --A. B. 22:47, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Is there something bad about Force Inc. specifically, or linking to commercial sites (pls excuse my ignorance)? This page doesn't seem biased or particularly commercial, just a few ads, and I've found the info on it pretty useful. I'd like to revert this change.... --gurnec 19 July 2006

See these Wikipedia pages:

• Wikipedia:External links, especially the section "Links normally to be avoided"
• Wikipedia:Spam, espcially the section "External link spamming"
• Spamdexing -- much of Wikipedia's external spam-linking is not even done to lure Wikipedia readers -- it's just there to build search engnine rankings. Google "loves" links leaving Wikipedia and seems to weight them pretty highly when computing search rankings.

I may have been a bit hasty in deleting this one -- I'm constantly deleting spammy links from the fiber articles (case in point: see Talk:Timbercon and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timbercon).

One telling mark of a spammer is to go to Search web links and search for instances of the same domain name. Use a * for a wildcard (example: *.fiber-optics.info ) and see how many links you get back. In the case of the fiber-optics.info domain, just the one above. So, yes, I was probably quick on the trigger -- feel free to add it back in.

And please -- if you see spammy links getting added, revert them and put a warning notice on the spammer's talk page.--A. B. 23:57, 19 July 2006 (UTC)