User talk:Great Haranguer
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You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. 
Joe I 10:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gold coins
Please do not add links to commercial websites selling a product if possible. it is advised in such cases to discuss the matter on the talk page first. LinaMishima 03:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
You have been asked to stop adding this link. Please engauge the community before adding it again. Readding it without an edit rsummary does not explain your reasons for not listening to the revert summary. LinaMishima 03:27, 31 August 2006 (UTC) ___________________________________________________________________________________________
I added the link because the page provides good information about modern bullion coins. You say it is verboten because it is a commercial page. But so are four of the other links are blantantly commercial.
Kitco sells gold and silver; taxfreegold sells a gold scheme, the history of gold coins is commercial. Even the "museum" has commercial links.
What gives here? What makes those links acceptable and the one I added not?
Great out.
- Firstly, a reminder - you can sign your posts using ~~~~. This makes it easier to follow a discussion. Now, to address your points. Discounting adserver adverts, we get the following evaluation for the current links:
- | an association of coins and note collectors Whilst not correctly linking direct to the articles within, this is a link to a site dedicated to studying denominations. There's no problem there.
- brief history of gold coins Whilst the website itself is about buying coins, none of the material content presented here aside from the side menu discusses financial purchases. It is clearly focused on the academic history.
- history of gold coins Whilst again on a commercial website, any commercial trappings are limited to the small side menu and some run-of-the-mill style adverts at the bottom.
- the coin page appears to be a collectors' resource, and hence is good.
- kitco is, to be honest, a highly debatable link that I would be tempted to remove, as it only adds sale prices to the article, something more suited to Gold_as_an_investment.
- the gold museum is the website of just that.
- Now, returning to the link you added, my biggest consideration was that it did not appear to add to the article. I went back and checked this after the last removal. Much of the article relates to Gold_as_an_investment rather than Gold coin, and would be more appropriately used there. For the details about the composition of coins, the gold museum is far more complete. After that, it begins to give investment advice, and the comparisons it makes would be better sourced from a research document rather than layperson investment advise. Now, I will appologise for branding the link as highly commercial, as on checking I was wrong about this. However it currently adds little of value to the list of links. Where stronger, more nuetral, sources exist, these are typically preferable - and in this case they do. LinaMishima 05:55, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Notability of CMI Gold & Silver Inc.
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