User talk:Kirk goudy

Military gear source deletions
As far as I can tell, all of your contributions have involved deleting source links from military gear pages without the substitution of something that might be a more suitable source. (Incidentally, www.olive-drab.com actually looks to be a pretty good source for a lot of this information.) Please do not do that, especially not without leaving some kind of justification. It hurts the encyclopedia as a whole, since it makes it harder for someone to use it as a reference by eliminating avenues to follow up the information in the article. Haikupoet 01:23, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

You picked the least objectionable item. For www.olive-drab.com, although the site content has a high percentage of advertisements I wouldn't object to a relevant link. But external links from specific wiki gear page to a general WWII page seem very unfocused and of no practical use.

Links normally to be avoided: Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOLLE_%28military%29

Example: DIY Tactical - How to design and build Tactical Gear Should wiki have external links to everyone that sells an item described in wiki? Should that link be to the root store page? Incorrect focus, links has nothing to do with MOLLE and basically just a store.

Example:Military MOLLE Gear - Assorted MOLLE Gear with pictures and descriptions. Unfortunately, copywrited photos of commercial copies in a store context. Link is there to sell you.

Example: Extreme Gear Labs - equipment concept design and manufacture Store again. I don't even see MOLLE on this one.

As a side note, there is a difference between what the military MOLLE is and what commercial copies of MOLLE are. Military contracts meet spec's of a goverment contract and at a price. Those spec's are not met on commercail copies. A contractor will not meet goverment specs for a commercail release. The contractor would find it hard to explain why a contract spec item is commercially availble for less than what the goverment paid.