User talk:Alonzo Lyons

Linkspam
Please do not put external links to your own pages on Amazon, Google Plus, your blog, etc., as you have been doing in several articles. This is considered spamming and may lead to your account being blocked. Please refer to WP:ELNO to learn about what sort of links should be avoided in articles. Thanks. ~Amatulić (talk) 14:51, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Cheers to Amatulić for the information and guidance. Duly noted although not sure how to dialogue about some of the removals that I believe lend value to the articles in question, e.g., removing link to a webpage for the leading tourism attraction in Rukum, i.e., deleting link to www.guerrillatrek.org as well as guidebook for tourism in Rukumi.e., The Guerrilla Trek and Yarsa Trails:Off the beaten path in western Nepal, and especially removing a feature article link in a leading Nepali magazine on Yeti, Cracking the Yeti Myth.


 * I do believe the aforementioned lend something to the articles and will live with it if considered 'self-promotion' (and hopefully not make the same mistakes again). I do highly disagree with removing the 'controversy' section over the so-called Great Himalaya Trail...it is a very well-funded campaign (i.e., many paid voices promoting it and no paid voices in opposition) but it doesn't actually exist and controversial or not, that viewpoint ought to be noted. Not the least because it is potentially dangerous that this trail has been advertised as extant to unwitting trekkers who undertake it and get lost like the Nat Geo Adventurer of the Year as mentioned in the removed Controversy section...


 * At any rate, I am new to this and therefore, many cheers for Amatulić's patience and guidance with a newbie. Alonzo Lyons (talk) 18:01, 29 March 2016 (UTC)


 * I know you're new, and welcome.


 * First, please review Conflict of interest. You have a conflict of interest related to article topics that are close to you, and espeically with your works. If you want to include a link to an article you wrote elsewhere, the best practice is to propose it on the article's talk page for others to review.


 * Second, you need to review WP:ELNO. We generally don't link to blogs or other sources that have self-published or user-contributed content. Particularly for article citations. That's why we never cite Wikipedia in Wikipedia articles (because all content is user contributed). We don't link to blogs except in exceptional cases. Examples would include a science blog by a notable scientist, or a news blog by a recognized journalist; that is, a blog by a person who is notable and recognized as an expert in the field.


 * The controversy section I removed consisted of editorial opinions cited to a blog, not cited to any reliable sources. We don't express personal views in Wikipedia's narrative voice. It's OK to describe such views with attribution to a source that expresses them, but that wasn't done here, and the source cited was a blog.
 * Guerillatrek appears to be a blog that you are associated with.
 * Links to purchase pages are not allowed; there is no way you're going to get that Amazon link to a guidebook in an article, and your attempt to promote your own book by linking to it in a Wikipedia article is considered spamming. Please don't do that again. If you do, your account will surely be blocked. See WP:NOTPROMOTION &mdash; Wikipedia must not be used for publicity or promotional purposes, ever.
 * Cracking the Yeti Myth is also your own blog. While the community may object to citing it as a reference, it may be acceptable in the external links section, but it isn't your decision to add it due to your conflict of interest. You need to propose your links on the article talk page.


 * I hope that helps. ~Amatulić (talk) 18:40, 29 March 2016 (UTC)