User talk:65.27.8.194

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Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia as we drive for print or DVD publication; see the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. --Fire Star 05:03, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Please look at www.worldtaichiday.org. It is a massive resource for tai chi & qigong medical research, a global directory of free listings for schools and associations, and a vast resource of free online lessons, and tips for new students to get the most out of their instruction. It's health education work has been recognized by the United Nations World Health Organization, and governors of over 16 US states, and mayors and senates worldwide. It represents every major Tai Chi & Qigong style, with educational information on tai chi & qigong, as wells as multitudinous health issue resources and links. I've viewed the other External Links, and do not see why www.worldtaichiday.org has been singled out to be censored from the External Links. Please re add it, or instruct me to do so.
Well, it isn't censorship, there is a long history of redundant websites being taken off the main list. Yours is just the most recent. By redundant I mean that it is already linked at Lee Scheele's links to T'ai Chi Ch'uan websites already on our list, so in the interest of preventing the long article from becoming more of a weblisting service I removed it. The contact info for World T'ai Chi Day is still there, just at a secondary tier. As a promotional rather than a purely instructive website, I didn't see it as appropriate for a primary listing. Regards, --Fire Star 16:32, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Your other External Links here at "tai chi" are also linked, so they should all be secondary by this rational. The reason I am doggedly sticking with this, isn't to be confrontational, but because World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is by far the most comprehensive Tai Chi resource on the web. Your first External Link, is http://www.chenxiaowang.com/, which is obviously (when you click on it) a merchandising site, that also has Tai Chi information. Whereas World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is an educational site, that also has a marketplace. This first site you have has a total of FIVE association links. At World Tai Chi & Qigong Day we have over 1,500 links, searchable by country or state, in 60 nations worldwide, making us the most comprehensive free informational directory by location in the world of Tai Chi, bar none. Your 2nd website http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ offers 6 various tai chi discussion topics. We provide an unequaled tutorial on Tai Chi as it relates to Traditional Chinese Medicine:

TAI CHI & ACUPUNCTURE http://www.worldtaichiday.org/LessonTaiChiD.html#anchorTCnAcupuncture

TAI CHI & THE ZANGFU ORGAN SYSTEM OF TCM http://www.worldtaichiday.org/LessonTaiChiD.html#anchorZangFu

TAI CHI & PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY http://www.worldtaichiday.org/LessonTaiChiD.html#anchorTCnPsychon

HEADLINE NEWS ON TAI CHI RESEARCH AND EVENTS, WITH A LISTING OF TAI CHI SEARCHES FOR ALL THE MAJOR HEALTH DATABASES: http://www.worldtaichiday.org/HeadlineNews.html

INFORMATION & LINKS ON ALL MAJOR TAI CHI STYLES: http://www.worldtaichiday.org/STYLEHOME.html

At World Tai Chi & Qigong Day, we offer researched information, referenced to medical journals, etc. on: ADD & Tai Chi AGING & Tai Chi ALLERGIES / ASTHMA & Tai Chi ALZHEIMER'S ANXIETY ARTHRITIS BALANCE DISORDERS DIABETES DRUG REHABILITATION PENAL REHABILITATION FIBROMYALGIA HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PARKINSON'S

COMPREHENSIVE MEDICAL RESEARCH DATA - SEARCHABLE BY MALADY

INFORMATION ON TAI CHI CLASS STRUCTURE INFORMATION ON TAI CHI CLASS ETIQUETTE INFORMATION ON CHALLENGES AND TIPS TO NEW STUDENTS TO THE ART INFORMATION ON TAI CHI FOR SENIORS INFORMATION ON TAI CHI FOR CHILDREN INFORMATION ON TAI CHI FOR WOMEN INFORMATION ON TAI CHI FOR MATERNITY INFORMATION ON TAI CHI FOR MEN INFORMATION ON TAI CHI FOR GOLF IMPROVEMENT INFORMATION ON TAI CHI FOR TENNIS IMPROVEMENT

FREE VIDEO EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES EXPOSING READERS VISUALLY TO VARIOUS TAI CHI FORMS AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PREMISE OF TAI CHI:

VIDEO EXPLANATION OF "QI" http://www.worldtaichiday.org/LESSONQigong.html

SITTING QIGONG EXERCISE AUDIO http://www.worldtaichiday.org/LESSONQigong.html

TAI CHI LONG FORM VIDEO LESSON TAI CHI - MULAN FORM - VIDEO LESSON TAI CHI FAN STYLE VIDEO EXHIBITION TAI CHI SWORD STYLE VIDEO EXHIBITION TAI CHI - CHEN STYLE OLD FRAME - VIDEO EXHIBITION TAI CHI - CHEN STYLE NEW FRAME - VIDEO EXHIBITION http://www.worldtaichiday.org/LESSONTaiChi.html

And yes, it is true that we have a comprehensive listing of Tai Chi & Qigong WEBLINKS, and we acknowledge that Lee's is a superb link site, however ours is searchable by locality, which makes ours very user friendly and informative to readers. Of course our links page is user friendly and comprehensive, but only a small sliver of the hundreds of pages of Tai Chi resources, research and information provided to our readers and visitors.

I list "some" of our resources above that could greatly enhance Wikipedia readers knowledge of Tai Chi by having www.worldtaichiday.org an External Link for Tai Chi. By all standards you can see that our site far exceeds many of the other sites you've deemed appropriate for External Links. World Tai Chi & Qigong Day's educational resources in text, video, and audio, are unequaled on the web, therefore, we appeal once again to be listed in the External Links for Tai Chi, because without www.worldtaichiday.org Wikipedia's External Links section for "tai chi" will be missing valuable resources and educational materials for your readers looking for "tai chi" information.

[edit] Writing an article

Greetings.

I think that the best way to address the World T'ai Chi website issue is to actually write a Wikipedia article about the event itself at World Tai Chi and Qigong Day. I am convinced it is a notable enough subject to justify that. We could recount the history of the event, list the rationale for it, level of participation and local govt. cooperation, etc. in the article. We would be justified in having a prominent link to the World T'ai Chi day website in its own article and also have the article linked to the main Tai Chi Chuan article. The article itself doesn't have to be very long, and we can always expand it later.

The following will help with the overall structure:


If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Regards, --Fire Star 23:06, 19 February 2006 (UTC)