User talk:Gord1234

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[edit] Usenet article

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Usenet. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. 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 rather than re-adding it. Thank you. -- HiEv 13:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

When adding your comments to my talk page please put them on their own line and sign them as I indicated at the top of the page.

Anyways, as I pointed out on your talk page and in my first edit summary, Wikipedia is not a collection of links, so an article should only have a few useful and relevant links on them. Since the article is mainly about the history, organization, and technical details of Usenet, I don't think a site that mainly talks about how to trade files on Usenet is of particular relevance to the article. It's too specific. Furthermore, the site contains little information about Usenet which is not available in the article or other existing external links, which makes it a poor external link. Because of that I'd say it fails under both #1 and #14 on the list of links normally to be avoided there, and possibly #6 (see below).

Regarding usenetnewsgroup.net, the site provides a comprehensive list of Usenet newsgroups and some general information about Usenet. The how-to-usenet.com is a good general resource that includes general Usenet information not in the Usenet article. Also, neither of them have any advertising (though there is currently a gap for an ad on the first one) while CanadianAlien.com on it's Introduction to Binary Usenet page has three advertisements (two for a particular Usenet provider) and one "support this site" advertisement which goes to a page asking for donations and such. Even if it were identical to those other sites, that too would be a reason to exclude it, because then it would add nothing new to the article, and the article should not try to be a collection of links to all Usenet related sites.

Also, I should note that if you are affiliated with the canadianalien.com site (and I don't know if you are or not) then it is inappropriate for you to add a link to it to any articles.

If you still disagree then you should bring it up on the Usenet talk page and let others decide. (copied from my talk page) -- HiEv 12:07, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

If you want to add a comment to the Talk:Usenet page you should add it to the bottom of the page as a new section and don't forget to sign your comment. DMacks removed your addition to the talk page because you edited it into someone else's comment and didn't sign it, making it look like someone else had said what you wrote. Also, since you admit that it is your website in that edit, I again note that it is inappropriate for you to add a link to it to any Wikipedia articles, though you can still bring it up on the talk pages and see if others think it is worth adding. -- HiEv 11:35, 9 November 2007 (UTC)