User talk:Bdonckel

August 2010
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you.  MrOllie (talk) 16:33, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Dear,

Why can't this link be on Wikipedia? It links to an implementation of the optimization algorithm I used when working on my doctoral thesis. It has already been there for at least one and a half years and many people from all around the world have downloaded and used it, some of which emailed me afterwards thanking me for offering the code. Most of them find this code through wikipedia, because it is one of the first entry Google gives and it's the perfect starting point.

I understand that you remove irrelevant links that were put there for commercial reasons, but I do not think that this is the case here. Besides, If I would remove all the links that shouldn't be listed (according to your text) in the external links section, then it would be a full time job and it would make Wikipedia a lot less interesting.

Best regards, Brecht