User talk:IamMacArthur

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in Newfoundland and Labrador. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. -- cmh 23:28, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Please stop adding commercial links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. -- cmh 19:41, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Pardon my inexperience at this, Colin! How is my link different than VisitNewfoundland.ca which appears in the same section. "Something for Everybody" is more than a 'mere' collection of links; I would challenge you to find a similiar website that has more Newfoundland and Labrador content. There are currently more than 1500 links on this site and most of them are NL decicated. My site is not a commercial site; I have never earned 2 cents from it.

If you would examine the content instead of parsing it with your clever script/bot you would see that this link is appropriate to Wiki re Newfoundland and Labrador. ARE YOU the final arbiter of content???

Thanks. -- Mac 22:07, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Mac, thanks for responding. The link you are adding is to your personal collection of links on NL. This is not encyclopedic, as per Wikipedia's External links policy which states not to link to "A website that you own or maintain, even if the guidelines above imply that it should be linked to." The guideline only mentions "one web directory" in terms of web directories, and yours is neither open-source nor annotated. (There is no content but links on your page, which is not useful to those looking to an encyclopedia for prose.) Why not treat the topics in your list in the encyclopedia instead of insisting on a link to your own site?

Regarding commerciality, many of the links on your page are not related to NL and are to businesses. I am not the final arbiter of spam, but others are not stepping up to the plate to defend your link. There is no script. -- cmh 22:21, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Colin,

Your continual condesending references to spam are unwarranted. If I add a link and 'you' arbitarily delete it; how can anyone come to the plate? It is the 19th of July after all; many people (unlike you and I) have a life and are probably on vacation with their friends and family.

Why don't you leave the link alone for a week and see if others appreciate the content or object to it. I spent 38 years working in the data/computer field, I have an appreciation for data integrity. Most of the links on my page are annotated with title tips that are displayed when you hover a la text tips. This is to provide the user with information to let them ascertain whether they might be interested in the link in question.

Have a nice day!

-- Mac 23:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

At this time I see no reason why the link should be there, it violates the external link policy, and I do not believe it adds value. Should you wish to obtain support for the link, I recommend you discuss with other editors at Talk:Newfoundland and Labrador. At this time I don't believe I have more to say on the topic. -- cmh 03:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)