User talk:Jct alaska

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. OhNo itsJamie Talk 01:17, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

February 2009
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Leivick (talk) 01:27, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

How is it spamming to add links to a valid website about the topic? The link I've added contains lots of related useful information. I understand now though that simply adding a link is not the way to do it. Instead I need to provide real useful edits with citations. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Also I understand that Wikipedia sets the nofollow tag and I'm not trying to increase my Google ranking, only trying to provide a source of information about grizzly bears.

John Jct alaska (talk) 01:39, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * You need to stop canvassing Wikipedia with your link. See WP:COI. It may be OK on the Grizzly Bear article, but not on every tangentially related page. OhNo itsJamie Talk 01:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Jamie,

You are correct and I got carried away with the ability to edit pages. I apologize. I will not post it on other topics and I do plan on adding some real content to the bear pages which have a few errors. Since grizzly bears and brown bears are exactly the same species I think it should be left on the brown bear page as well as the grizzly bear page. Thanks for your help.
 * No problem. I appreciate your being reasonable and civil. Cheers, OhNo itsJamie  Talk 03:19, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Your website is about grizzly bears and not about brown bears in general, so I removed it from Brown Bear. I also retargeted the link in the grizzly bear article to a specific page, as external links are supposed to point to specific content except on certain cases. --Enric Naval (talk) 23:12, 4 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi Enric,


 * Grizzly bears and Brown bears are exactly the same species and the names are used interchangeably. Some people use Grizzly to refer to inland brown bears but technically they are the exact same animal.  The bears on our website are coastal Alaskan brown bears but yet we mostly call them grizzly bears.


 * Hum, no. They are all members of the same bear family, but Grizzly (Ursus arctos horribilis) is not a synonimous with brown (Ursus arctos), and is not the same as the other types of browns bears like Kodiak Bear. --Enric Naval (talk) 01:33, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Enric, hum, yes. I've spent that last five years of my life dedicated to studying and observing brown grizzly bears in Alaska having worked with some of the most respected people in the field. For many years grizzly bears were considered a subspecies of the brown bear but that is known to no longer be true. The only subspecies of the brown bear is the Kodiak. Brown bears and grizzly bears are BOTH technically ursus arctos. The only difference is their diet and thus their behavior. The horibilis is a carryover from when they were believed to be a seperate subspecies and is rarely used today. Here is a link to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game which clearly explains that grizzly bears and brown bears are technically the exact same species - ursus arctos. I'm sorry but WikiPedia is several decades dated on this issue.

http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/notebook/biggame/brnbear.php

It is common to refer to inland brown bears as grizzly bears and coastal brown bears as simply brown bears but they are the exact same species and the terms are used interchangeably. Although we work almost exclusively with coastal brown bears, everyone still mainly calls them grizzly bears. This is a confusing subject and one I've explained countless times over the years. At this point I'm not trying to convince to you to allow my link under brown bears and I just wanted to set this topic straight.