User talk:Lovely272

April 2008
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. 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 article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Orange Marlin Talk• Contributions 03:37, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Excuse me, but given that I am one of the world's leading crop circles researchers, as well as a best-selling author, my website is hardly "inappropriate". Compared to many sites already listed on this page, mine is full of research and information and therefore of substantial benefit to the topic presented here. Please desist from removing this link.


 * First of all, it would be best that you sign your own posts. Second, self-promotion isn't going to get you far.  Your link is inappropriate.   Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 16:39, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Then, by your logic, EVERY link on this page is inappropriate since all of them, in one way or another are self-promotional. For example, the link to Steve and Karen Alexander is a website that promotes and sells their videos and aerial photography; circlemakers.org promotes the work of hoaxers for monetary gain. By contrast, my website is a research website of articles by myself and other researchers; a number of these articles have been previously published internationally, and several pages are research documents with credited sources validated by an internationally known publisher. Therefore, the main drive of this website is neither self-promotional nor commercial. Your argument has no foundation and you will re-instate the link you deleted, please.


 * I appreciate the heads up.  Orange Marlin  Talk• Contributions 17:58, 1 April 2008 (UTC)