User talk:Dotgovcom

November 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 List of US Government @ Twitter 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://twitter.com/SF311 (matching the regex rule \btwitter\.com\b). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). 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) 04:20, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

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://twitter.com/nyccouncil/ (matching the regex rule \btwitter\.com\b). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). 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) 04:36, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
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I am creating a list of official US government twitter pages, but the bot is deleting all my links. How can that be stopped?


 * Is a list the best way to present this information? It will be cumbersome, rarely if ever complete, and difficult to maintain. If the Twitter feeds belong anywhere, it's in the external links section of the respective government articles. —C.Fred (talk) 04:42, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of List of US Government @ Twitter


The article List of US Government @ Twitter has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Wikipedia is not a directory. If this information is encyclopedic, it's at the state/county/city article level and not as a list that will be difficult to keep accurate and complete.

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing  will stop the Proposed Deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The Speedy Deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and Articles for Deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. —C.Fred (talk) 04:41, 19 November 2009 (UTC)


 * There is a high need among local governments to share best practises about twitter. Besides, wikipedia is full of lists. see f.i. Lists_of_Oregon-related_topics) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dotgovcom (talk • contribs)

Comparing the Oregon lists to this one, how many entries do you expect the list to contain, were it complete as of right now? —C.Fred (talk) 05:07, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

There is a lot of lack on knowledge about the use of Twitter for Local Government. There are mnay good cases, but those are unknown to many city webmasters. I expect a lot webmasters of local government organisations will help in completing the list in the next weeks. I expect 50-100 entries. A central (neutral and reliable) resource on the web about Twitter & local government is highly needed and will improve the use of Twitter (and social media) for local government and thus will result in better service for citizens.
 * How will a directory improve the use of Twitter? How is this anything but a directory, which Wikipedia is not?—C.Fred (talk) 05:19, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * More to the point, couldn't a Twitter list do this better, easier, and with quicker maintenance (even if it'd be by one person)? —C.Fred (talk) 05:22, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

The problem with a twitter list is that people cannot contribute to it. This article is not in any way in conflict with the "Reasons for deletion" section in the "Wikipedia deletion policy", so please let us build an important reference for thousands of public servants through the country working in the internet industry.