User talk:BiominWiki


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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 09:57, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I have removed http://www.mycotoxins.info because it is unclear who wrote those pages and based on what data, i.e., it is unreferenced, unreliable source of information. Regards. Materialscientist (talk) 12:11, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

I seriously doubt that all external link sources on Wikipedia mention references or information on the source. mycotoxins.info does mention the publisher: http://mycotoxins.info/myco_info/disclaimer.html --BiominWiki (talk) 13:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * You can reply here (I see it in my watchlist). mycotoxins.info and its disclaimer do not tell us anything about credibility of information on that site. We need reliable sources, such as books and review articles - those are peer reviewed and their authors can be traced in the scientific world. Materialscientist (talk) 13:35, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

I'm surprised that this also applies to external links. I'm sure there are lots of examples of external sources on Wikipedia that do not adhere to these requirements. I strongly believe that by including mycotoxins.info as an external source the community would gain added value and ultimately Wikipedia is not responsible for accuracy of information on external sites anyway. While I appreciate your sense for scientific practices I cannot help but feel that your judgement is a bit harsh in this case and I'd like to once again ask you to include it as a source.--BiominWiki (talk) 13:31, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It is correct that many external links that we have do not meet our standards (not enough manpower to check them all); on the other hand, external links bear relatively little value and are often wiped out as a whole section. Materialscientist (talk) 13:42, 10 May 2012 (UTC)