User talk:Floor Anthoni

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[edit] Welcome!

Welcome!

Hello, Floor Anthoni, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  -- Paleorthid 03:00, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links

You have asked for feedback in several venues as to the value of placing external links to Seafriends in articles where that placement would add value. Here is my feedback.

It is noteworthy that you have not improved any article content. Your sole editing to date has been to promote the Seafriends website. This speaks volumes about your intentions here, not in a bad way per se, but it makes it very clear what needs to be said next. As ethical, beneficial, and timely, as your site may be, this is not a track that has a future at Wikipedia. There are many ways for you to contribute to Wikipedia and I look forward to you exploring them. It is a tremendous kick to contribute content and watch as others build on it, or even to watch it get torn down and replaced by better material. That's the adrenelin rush that holds this project together. External links to the Seafriends site run counter to the Manual of Style guidelines at WP:EL and WP:SPAM, guidelines that help keep the project focussed. As a wiser editor than I once stated, <quote>having links at all is actually a pretty low priority at Wikipedia, since (non-reference) links don't really have anything to do with having a quality encyclopedia. Wikipedia is also not a Google replacement, so the argument that it should be there for the users holds no water. A link, ideally, is only included when it offers something that could never be in the encyclopedia itself. </quote> Appreciate the opportunity to get that off my chest. Sincerely hope this helps with your work here and at Seafriends. -- Paleorthid 04:05, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Update: I wasn't correct about no improved content - sorry about painting you with too black a brush there, I should have looked beyond the links you added. And seeing the edits by 222.155.151.86 and the feedback they generated prior to you getting your user account, I see you are moving quickly up the learning curve. Take heart: many here have moved through much the same set of dance steps. -- Paleorthid 06:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)