User talk:Howarddaniel

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Hello... sorry to have to do this, but I have removed the link you added from all but one of the pages. Ordinarily, this might be tagged as "spam" - but in your case it seems very different, and very well intentioned. However, Wikipedia does have what we call our external links guideline, which explains what is considered acceptable for links to pages outside of the project. The link you've added is probably suitable for the main article about Danelectro, but not for the sub-articles, or for more general articles such as electric guitar. Please feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. Cheers. --Ckatz chat spy  09:56, 1 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Hello... thanks for the note. Hopefully, the guideline I supplied will help explain Wikipedia's approach to external links. However, I wasn't the one who removed your edit from the main article - that was done by someone else. I see you've restored it, which is fine as it seems valid. If, by chance, it is removed again, you may wish to bring it up on the talk page and explain why you feel it is warranted; that tends to be received better than simply reinserting. (By the way, with regards to "how to carry on a conversation" - you're doing just fine. Generally speaking, questions regarding article content go on the article's talk page, while questions regarding a specific editor's actions are best directed to that person's page.) Cheers. --Ckatz chat spy  00:54, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Following is a note I just posted on the talk page of the Danelectro article. Perhaps it will help to post it here as well:

This is Howard Daniel. I'm the (63-year old) son of Danelectro's founder, Nathan I. Daniel, who died in 1994. In the last few days, several other editors have made a variety of changes to this article, and several of those changes have included deleting an external link to a tribute I wrote about my father and first linked to this article in April 2007. The link remained undisturbed until roughly a week ago. The tribute to my father, which resides on my own Web site, is mainly about the many innovations that my dad contributed to the world of electric guitars and musical instrument amplifiers. The article provides a great deal of Danelectro history that can be found nowhere else. I think my tribute is a very useful addition to this article, and I respectfully request other editors out there to not once again delete this external link, which I am about to restore. I truly believe the tribute to Nathan I. Daniel constitutes an important service to anyone interested in Danelectro.

Just to make sure everything is as clear as possible, the tribute can be found at http://www.pen4rent.com/pen4rent/tribute.aspx, and if anyone is tempted in the future to again delete the link, I urge you, in my father's memory, to look the article over before deleting the link. If anyone wishes to contact me about this, please let me know by e-mail at howard@pen4rent.com.

Thank you very much. Howard E. Daniel 05:48, 5 February 2008 (UTC)Howard E. Daniel 05:56, 5 February 2008 (UTC)