User talk:Gishdukat

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. 1-54-24 06:43, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
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 * 09:17, 10 July 2006 You deleted a legitimate warning on User talk:Gishdukat. That is considered prohibited as Talk page vandalism.


 * 09:16, 10 July 2006 You deleted the entire talk page on User talk:1-54-24 to add one comment. That is considered prohibited as Talk page vandalism.


 * 03:01, 10 July 2006 You deleted a subhead for an official website for Genesis Climber Mospeada and deleted a link to another site in order to add a self-promoting link.


 * 03:03, 10 July 2006 You deleted a link to an official website for SDF-1 Macross in order to add a self-promoting link.


 * 02:55, 10 July 2006 You added a self-promoting link to Category:Macross characters, when external link lists don't belong in Category pages.


 * 02:55, 10 July 2006 You added a self-promoting link to Category:Robotech characters, when external link lists don't belong in Category pages.


 * 02:51, 10 July 2006 You deleted two source listings for Lisa Hayes from an official website in order to add a self-promoting link.


 * 02:45, 10 July 2006 You added a self-promoting link to The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross when the site in question doesn't have a page about the topic.


 * Please refer to Spam. Spam can be links to your own private website, which you have just acknowledged as such. Wikipedia is not a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. We welcome contributions, and please don't hesitate to ask for help from others in the community. Wikipedia discourages bare links as opposed to contributed cited text, and discourages adding the same link to many articles. Please read Wikipedia's Welcome and policies before contributing. 1-54-24 11:35, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Sources and external links
Greetings and welcome to wikipedia! As you are a relatively new member of the wikipedia community, I would like to help you understand some of our guidelines and official rules on linking to external sources and sites.

In regards to recent disputed links to your web site, on 1-54-24's talk page, you wrote:


 * I spent the last 7 years working on my website, doing research and posting articles. I moderated three message boards and posted one article after the other and shared them with everybody when there was no Robotech.com and information was scarce. I'm not a kid you know. Now, some people claim them their own or common knowledge since the board went down and i postponed the site for personal projects. I'm not gonna accept that.

The wikipedia guideline for external links states that links normally to be avoided include the following:


 * A website that you own or maintain, even if the guidelines above imply that it should be linked to. This is because of neutrality and point-of-view concerns; neutrality is an important objective at Wikipedia, and a difficult one. If it is relevant and informative, mention it on the talk page and let other — neutral — Wikipedia editors decide whether to add the link.

Additionally, wikipedia's official copyright policy states that links should not be made to web sites that violate others' copyrights. In this case, while your site lists "Robotech RPG" and "Palladium Books" as sources for some of the material in question, your web site does not appear to be following the strictures set out in Palladium Books' official internet policy.

You also wrote:


 * I'll restore every single link I can prove that contains some of my source material, you can debate them all if you want.

This could be problematic in several different ways. The official wikipedia policy on verifiability indicates that only verifiable facts should be included in articles. For the various Robotech and Macross articles, that could include information presented in print (comics, novelizations, etc.) or on screen (the actual movies, the television series themselves, etc.). As such, because the facts are made up of publically held information, their very nature would preclude your claim that they are derived from "my source material." However if the articles in question contain facts that were not taken from the original sources (the books, comics, movies, television series, etc.) but are instead your own hypothesises or suppositions, then that information should be immediately removed from wikipedia because fanwank violates the guideline for reliable sources, and regardless, official wikipedia policy strictly prohibits the inclusion of original research in any article.

Hopefully this aids your understanding of the reasoning behind other editors' article reverts. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Again, welcome to wikipedia, and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 02:51, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Removal of talk page warnings
Please do not remove warnings from your talk page or replace them with offensive content. Removing or maliciously altering warnings from your talk page will not remove them from the page history. If you continue to remove or vandalize warnings from your talk page, you will lose your privilege of editing your talk page. Thanks. --Kralizec! (talk) 02:43, 17 July 2006 (UTC)