User talk:Matthewdearden

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Re: Rampworx skatepark
Hi mate. You need to be careful editing the above article, especially with regard to the addition of external links and promotion content. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a blog, so statements like "Our skate park" are going to get picked up pretty quickly and reverted. External links within the article itself will also be reverted. One link to the skatepark at the end of the article is enough, there's no need to pepper the text with links back to the skatepark's website - people will just assume you're spamming. You should probably also have a read of WP:COI. Happy to help out and walk you through it but the edits you made have been reverted until you can working within guidelines like WP:MOS and WP:NOTPROMO. Stalwart 111  09:14, 16 October 2013 (UTC)


 * Hello, I am the webmaster for Rampworx and was just updating the information as it is quite a bit out of date at the moment and as it is appearing in Google when people search for the skatepark we needed the info to be accurate. Thanks for the friendly advice, we are new to the whole Wiki editing thing.


 * Yeah, that's kind of the problem with having your company/organisation on Wikipedia. We can only really include information that can be verified by reliable sources which means your own recollections or opinions about things don't count for much (unfortunately). Wikipedia exists to chronicle historically important things, people, organisations and events - it doesn't really exist as a tool to drive visitors to your own website. The best thing to do would be to find articles that give coverage to the skatepark so that we can update the article with "accurate" information while staying within the rules. Anything you have in terms of newspaper or magazine coverage would be a good start. Best place to discuss that would be on the article talk page where we can work together to prepare material and then add it to the article. The talk page can be found at Talk:Rampworx skatepark. Cheers, Stalwart 111  10:14, 16 October 2013 (UTC)