User talk:Cyngs

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. 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. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 17:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

my response cut and pasted from nlu's discussion
(i am new at this, obviously doing everything backwards)

Thank you for your message and I appreciate your vigilance. Obviously I am new to contributing (not new to enjoying Wikipedia however). I can assure you I have absolutely nothing to do with the site in question other than I have found it to be a useful resource, and the podcasts are free to download via the creative commons license, which I felt was in the true spirit of Wikipedia or I would not have posted it. I have never posted content before and felt a little guilty that I have never contributed to a resource I make plenty good use of.

I made mention of the extra paid subscription service as I felt it was only reasonable to point that out (as other links in the resources who do have extra "paid" services are not clearly stated upfront such as the monkeyking software with its buy now tab as well as advertisements for google photo organizer seems a bit deceptive to me). The site I had posted is a well known FREE resource, and many others unassociated with the website have also posted the free content on their sites without any mention to the additional services that are paid for and without attribution.

But I understand your point as I looked over your suggested link of Wikepedia Spam (although I feel that after reading the guidelines, several other links fell short of Wikipedias guidelines, while perhaps not your particular standards). While I should have read the guidlines first, I was following what I felt was in line and still do with the content that was on the page itself. I leave it to your conscience to thouroughly investigate where one should be removed while another remains (it took incredible and careful consideration for me to have even made a post, let alone delete one)--an arguement can be made for both, but I have a 10 page essay to write on the Groteque for Monday, so I will pass. But I do agree that Wikipedia should not just become a list of external links, and as I did not contribute any content (as the chinese language is out of my league but perhaps you will see me post some content on Claude Cahun, or some other obscure modern artist, though now I highly doubt it as I do not have the time or energy for obviously having to justify every entry I make)I also appreciate you politely lecturing me in private on my discussion page rather than knee-jerk naming me "spammer" on the chinese discussion page. ;)

Take care and keep up the good work. Cyngs 22:14, 21 July 2006 (UTC)cyngs