User talk:Lizhoffman

Hi, regarding your comment on the edit I made to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_foam. I respect your decision to remove my link and if that's the way it must be then there's nothing I can do about it but can I just ask you to have a closer look at http://www.myfoammattress.net/memory/ild.html. This is the most comprehensive report on memory foam firmness out there, it involved 30+ hours of research, interviewing and writing and is very useful for anyone who wants to understand how memory foam works. The link has been in Wikipedia for months now which to me it means that senior editors deemed it worthy and useful. I hope you will reconsider your decision to remove the link.

As for the other links I removed, they were all to merchants and I know Wikipedia doesn't like that. If I was wrong in removing them, then I'm sorry. They'd been piling up on that page for weeks now. I was hoping a senior editor would step in. The only link that seemed appropriate was the chemtox one.

Thank you for your time Liz


 * Hi, thank you for your contributions. It may well be that the link you added is in fact the best one and that all the others are spam links; however, the impression that your edits give is that of someone attempting to promote their own website by firstly inserting a link to it and secondly removing any other links that might draw away traffic. If this is not the case, then I apologize; however, it frequently is the case, and it is necessary for us to balance the need to provide useful external links with the need to prevent Wikipedia from turning into a marketing tool.


 * I recommend that if you add an external link to an article, and then find that many of the other links are unnecessary, you contact an administrator or more experienced user, or leave a message on the article's discussion page, suggesting that they be removed. This should remove any ambiguity about your intentions. Thanks – Qxz 10:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Qxz, I had tried contacting senior editors in the past and they never replied but maybe I didn't contact the right people. I wasn't aware of the correct procedure but I do know it now, thanks to you, so I will not make the same mistake twice. Given that you are the first to ever reply to me on Wikipedia I'll bring my concerns to you. Regarding the edit I made, is there some way that I can fix my mistake and reearn the spot that link had or is there nothing else to be done about it?


 * Thanks for the quick reply by the way!


 * I've had a look at both the link you added and the other links that were there, and yours seems to bear the least resemblence to spam; as your explanation seems reasonable, I've restored it. Again, apologies for misinterpreting your intentions.


 * I'm surprised to hear that you had so much trouble getting hold of someone; people are encouraged to at least say something in response to messages they recieve, unless they are obviously rude or insulting. I'll happily assist you with any other problems you may have (though if I'm not online, you may have to wait a little longer for a reply). Thanks – Qxz 10:21, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

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