User talk:Davidhknapp

Steelpan
Hello David

Thanks for your e-mail. For better understanding, regarding other editors participating and contributing to the article Steelpan, I'll post your same e-mail here and give you my point of view.

you wrote: "I suppose that makes sense. Especially in the case of mobile phones.  Anyone who would visit the page for mobile phones is aware of the companies in this market: Nokia, Samsung, etc.  However, the pan community is so small and lacks information about resources and builders.  People wanting to know about pan would probably have little idea about the companies in this market and would have a difficult time finding this information.  In this case having that info on the steelpan page I believe would be relevant and helpful.  I encourage you to change your mind as well as add to the list of companies I provided."

I disagree. There is google, if you want to find a pan builder near you. Then also, either include ALL people involved in building Steel Pans, or none. To include Mannette, Coyle and Gill is not fair for others. Including Panyard as a sheet music dealer, allthough they are primarily manufacturers of instruments doesn't make no sense either. Furthermore, this is not about me changing my mind. The wikipedia encyclopedia simply has these rules and I believe they should be respected. Now what could be done is to write articles about the pan builders... There are some, see Ellie Mannette or Bertie Marshall and a few other instrument makers with outstanding achievements. Panmaker (talk) 07:27, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

December 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Steelpan has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Steelpan+Steelband&search_type=&aq=f (matching the regex rule \byoutube\.com). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a media file (e.g. a sound or video file) on an external server, then note that linking to such files may be subject to Wikipedia's copyright policy and therefore probably should not be linked to. Please consider using our upload facility to upload a suitable media file. Video links are also strongly deprecated by our guidelines for external links, partly because they're useless to people with slow internet connections. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 19:43, 29 December 2009 (UTC)