User talk:Albanygw

Welcome to Wikipedia. If your only purpose here is to add links to your website, you'll probably cop some heat, because of our conflict of interest policy. Hopefully you've got more to contribute. There is plenty of stuff left to do that might interest you. For example we still don't have an article on Mount Melville, or Oyster Harbour, or Wollaston House or Albany Forts or the Amity or....

If you need any help. drop a message on my talk page and I'll see what I can do.

Hesperian 03:42, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I saw that there was a link to the City of Albany website and thought a link to the community web portal for the Albany area was a relevant link. This is all new to me, so help me out.  Albany Gateway is an incorporated association run by a community board of management.  Much of the information on the over 500 pages comes from community sources that is edited by the community for the community.  It offers a window into the lifestyle of the region.  It does also have business advertisers as local information and a source of income for the management of the site. Albany Gateway was first established in 2000 with funding from the Australian Govt's Networking the Nation funding round and is the only site that was funded that is still active.  I would be happy to make some contributions to Wikipedia, but still unclear what this should be.  The articles you mentioned, do you mean history, or how they are used today?  I am still learning how all this works.  I dont feel qualified to be an authority on these places, however can contribute my knowledge as a resident of the area.
 * Cheers Albanygw (talk) 05:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately we get a lot of people here trying to add links to their webpages in order to increase traffic. Our response is to scrutinise external links very carefully. The goal is to include only those links that actually improve the encyclopedia article. Your link is a bit borderline, and some people can be very zealous about removing borderline links, so you may find that someone will remove it.
 * You can contribute any way you want. Some people like to hit the "Random Article" button in the sidebar on the left, read the articles and fix any spelling errors they find. Others go to "Recent Changes" and clean up vandalism. Others add information from whatever book they happen to be reading. Others edit in particular fields; personally I mostly write articles on Western Australian plants. And others take photographs and upload them for use in the articles.
 * The articles I mentioned above were just a few Albany-related articles off the top of my head. You don't have to edit articles related to Albany; you can edit Star Wars or Kevin Rudd or integral calculus or Koala or bystander effect or whatever else takes your fancy. If you don't feel confident, you can always start off nice and slow. Hesperian 05:59, 14 April 2008 (UTC)