User:Cruisemates

I do not understand the above. This is not an ARTICLE. It is my userpage. It is about me, Paul Motter. I feel the strong shoulder of big brother here jumping to conclusions and not truly reading what they see here.

The whole point of me coming to Wikipedia is that I am considered an expert in a specific field. I came here to contribute to articles where I am certain what I am adding is wholly accurate information.

I am now finding I have wasted an afternoon because Wikipedia does not want qualified experts coming in to add their own knowledge - because that is "advertising" and "self-promotional."

My crime is that I used the name of my web site as my username!!!! Otherwise, they would have decided everything I was doing was done by an anonymous third party citing my own accurate reporting as their source. In other words - the site would rather have people who do not know if what they are citing is accurate rather than the originator of the actual information - the one person who knows for certain if it is accurate.

Does this make sense? NO. Cruisemates (talk) 23:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

I made some 30 changes to various pages, mostly adding external links to added information to a topic at hand. For example, for every Carnival cruise ship listed in this site, I added and external link to the page I have in our cruise travel site for the same ship. In other words, each of these external links was unique (it went to the specific ship being discussed) but I would bet you anything the editor did not notice this. Rather, they deduced they all linked back to my home page and all I was doing was adding the same link over and over. Cruisemates (talk) 16:12, 15 December 2008 (UTC)