User talk:Ebikeguy/Archives/2012/May

Accused of Advertising- Promoting website
Dear Ebikeguy,

I'd like to thank you for your message and hope I am replying in the correct place. Please forgive me if I am not.

I wanted to touch on the fact the my links have been removed as they were characterised as 'advertising' links. While I respect your opinion, I must disagree and I will explain why.

The links inserted cannot be considered 'promotional'. If there is something we are trying to promote, its free and quality education, and its something we have been doing since the year 2000.

Firstly, Firewall.cx is possibly one of the few quality websites with no advertising banners.

The links were carefully selected and were directly related to the topics/pages they were placed in. The goal is not to promote the website but the quality articles it provides which can surely help thousands of users. By removing a quality link, you are denying the public access to it through wikipedia. If this is a place of free quality information, why should a quality link be removed if it has not been truly examined to see if it has something to offer, regardless of who has written it?

I am thinking that wikipedia's biggest problem is possibly that I happen to write the articles, but if you look beyond that, you'll see the true and genuine value they provide. Cisco has awarded and recognised this effort by officially including them in their global academy training program, how is it that wikipedia believes the material is not worth being here, especially when we are taking about technologies Cisco has invented?

If Firewall.cx was a site full of adverting banners and useless information with a paragraph on the topic 'thrown' in there, just to make it look good, I would understand, but we know this is not the case. All material is original and we just want to share it with the public as much as possible.

While I am very disappointed my links have been labelled as mentioned, I ask that you visit them and read through the material. If at the end you still think its promotional material and not worth placing on Wikipedia, then I and very sadden by this and have nothing else to say.

I'm hoping that you'll reconsider and see the true value here. If wikipedia is all about sharing knowledge, then let them who have proved can do it, help this process.

Thank you for your time and sorry for the long post.

Chris. Chris Partsenidis 17:53, 7 May 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cpartsenidis (talk • contribs)
 * Chris, Please review Reliable sources. You will find that your links do not fall within these requirements.  Thanks.  Ebikeguy (talk) 18:31, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Query
Dear user, I found your name here WikiProject_Paid_Advocacy_Watch and was wondering whether you could take a look at at [|This talk page on Kosovo], specifically the bit about the proposed merger to determine whether these very (overly) active users are suspicious. It boggles my mind how a group of editors can be so united and zealous in promoting a particular case without receiving some sort of reward (?) Ottomanist (talk) 11:49, 21 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Ottomanist. I am not interested in taking part in this discussion.  Furthermore, I recommend you use careful judgment in contacting editors on this matter, lest you leave yourself open to accusations of canvassing.  Ebikeguy (talk) 16:26, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

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