User talk:G. Donald Bain

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Hello, G. Donald Bain, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type   and your question on this page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers: We hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on talk and vote pages using four tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  02:37, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
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December 2013
Hello, I'm TheRedPenOfDoom. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  02:37, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Ocean Beach, San Francisco with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. J.delanoy gabs adds 05:04, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

I really don't know what is going on here - am I posting to somebody, everybody, nobody?

My simple and sincere request is that I be allowed to supplement Wikipedia articles with my 360° panoramic photographs, a unique and valuable form of documentation. The most practical way of doing this is by linking to the appropriate pages on my website 360panos.com, which in turn link to the rich media, maintained and presented on my website. So far as I know nothing in the Wiki family supports this particular sort of imagery. G. Donald Bain (talk)

G. Donald Bain, you are invited on a Wikipedia Adventure!
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Your photographs
Hi G. - I took a look at one of the panaroma's and could see some of them falling under WP:ELYES #3 "neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject." However, I see several problems. First, the standard you are applying, "add value to the wikipedia articles by illustrating in a uniquely impartial manner the reality of the location" is not Wikipedia's standard. The external link needs to be justified under External links. Second, you appear to be indiscriminately ("methodically") adding links from wikipedia pages of a geographic nature to pages on my site that contain 360° panoramas of that location. Each external link needs to be relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject. Merely being a 36o degree view does not mean it is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject. That understanding needs to be justified by the text of the Wikipedia article, not a personal belief. Third, and the biggest problem, is that you are violating WP:COI. Since the external links are to your personal website and you don't meet the terms of WP:CURATOR, you are limited to actions described in WP:COIU when it comes to those external links - which means do not add those external links. However, everything changes if you decide to donate those 360 degree images or just a screen shot to creative commons. The creative commons images can have your name/website in the creative commons URL, you can post the actual image into the article itself (no need for an external link), and all that can be linked back to your web page. You can accomplish what you want so long as you do it the right way. If you want more help on this, please post on my talk page. -- Jreferee (talk) 20:35, 7 December 2013 (UTC)