User talk:AcademyAD

JCB Dieselmax
Thanks for the link you added to Ingenia Magazine - one of the best descriptions I've read of the engine development for it, and just the right level for Wikipedia. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

PS - Have you seen the citation templates, such as cite magazine? They can make formatting these links easier and more consistent.

June 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. -- Mark Chovain 01:01, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * My bad - please accept my apologies. I'll revert my changes in a tick. -- Mark Chovain 01:26, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Your edits
Hi, thanks for the references. They seem quite nice. However, I do have some problems with these edits. Where you add these links as external links I do believe that they are not appropriate there, and although you use them in other places as references, they were not used to write those parts. Could you please stop for the moment, and discuss your link-additions in more detail (e.g. with a wikiproject, you can find them via banners on talkpages of pages you are interested in). I am going to revert your external link additions for now until further discussion has been done. Thanks. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:37, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

I see that your edits have also been reported to the wikiproject on spam, see WikiProject Spam. --Dirk Beetstra T C 12:44, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dirk, thanks for your message. I have left a post on the wikispam page. Just to say that I acknowledge that some of my edits have been pretty rough in terms of linking and therefore that they may not be suitable. However, my view is that when doing research on wikipedia it is very useful to have a broader overview of the topic or an explanation from a different angle. As an engineer I think ingenia is a fantastic resource for engineering-based learning/research and should be taken advantage of. As said on my posting on the wikispam page I will stop updating entries now while I re-read the wikipedia rules on this. None of the links made are spam and I hope the removal of them will be balanced as I strongly believe they useful additions. Thankyou for making me aware of the issues with referencing/linking, it is not my intention to provoke anger amongst the community, rather to improve the use of wiki entries. User:AcademyAD


 * Thanks for the reply. Being an encyclopedia, we are more helped with content than with links to external sites (though references may help).  However, some of the references I checked are 'sought' .. they talk about the same, but do not cover the sentence (see WT:WPSPAM for an example).
 * As I suggested above, please contact a suitable wikiproject. They 'group' editors with similar interests.  You can find them via WikiProject, looking at banners on talkpages of some pages you are interested in, or using the history tab on some pages, and look for editors who are regulars (and not bots (automated accounts)) and ask if they are connected to a suitable wikiproject (or contact them immediately for info).  I am sure that they will be willing to help you with further edits, and that they will welcome your expertise in the subject.
 * May I ask you to go through your edits, and have a look if the links/references are really suitable? Thanks again, and happy editing.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 13:34, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I wanted to answer also to your comment '... some link to a profile of an engineer (for example Professor James Dooge), which will unquestionably be of use to those doing research.'; that is why I say that it is better to add content, along with the link as a reference (see also the intro of External links). I don't believe the content of the site is unsuitable for inclusion in wikipedia, and as such it is not suitable as an external link.  If you have content which can be used to expand the article, but don't want to/can't to expand yourself, then the talkpage is the perfect place to discuss and suggest possibilities for expansion.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 14:14, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the messages - I will revisit my previous edits and will sort accordingly. Also, thanks for advice of talk page - I wasn't aware of this but it does seem like it could be a useful place to try to discuss additions. User:AcademyAD 14:29, 9 December 2008 (UTC)