User talk:Ducati38

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[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Ducati38, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions; I hope you like it here and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

• If you haven't already, drop by the new user log and tell others a bit about yourself.
• Always sign your posts on talk pages with ~~~~ so others will know who left which comments.
• The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
• Our policies, guidelines, and simplified ruleset
• How to edit a page and write a great article
• The Wikipedia tutorial and picture tutorial
• The handy Manual of Style
• And finally, remember to be bold in updating pages!

I hope you enjoy editing and being a Wikipedian. Although we all make mistakes, please keep in mind what Wikipedia is not. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. The Community Portal can also be very useful.

Happy editing!

-- Sango123 18:52, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you need help with anything. :)

[edit] Mass addition of Technical Properties & Applications link to many pages

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 05:58, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Wikipedia email

Hi Ducati38, and thanks for your email.

I apologise for referring to your edits as spam; that was a failure to assume good faith on my part.

Regarding your question, I'm not sure what to suggest except that you investigate some of the links in the welcome message above, such as How to edit a page or the Wikipedia Tutorial. In a nutshell, you can contribute by adding the kind of content you would expect to find in a conventional encyclopedia (or specialist encyclopedia), and by doing your best to attribute statements of fact to reliable sources.

But first, I would strongly encourage you to read the following guideline: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. I appreciate that you may have considerable expertise that could be valuable to Wikipedia, and I would not want to discourage you from contributing in the areas in which you are most knowledgable. Edits that adhere to Wikipedia's policies on Verifiability and on keeping a Neutral point of view will always be welcome.

If you wish to add external links to articles, please make sure they comply with the guidelines linked in my message above. Also, it's normally best to deep link directly to a page that will be immediately useful to readers, rather than to link to a page that serves as an index or collection of links. One way to get a feel for the kinds of external links that are appropriate is to study those of featured articles that are loosely related to your own interests, perhaps acetic acid or welding.

Please feel free to email me or to leave comments or questions on my talk page.

All the best, Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 14:39, 5 June 2008 (UTC)