User talk:Metalray

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See also WP:COI in case it might apply.

--Ronz (talk) 16:05, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Response:
metallon.org is non commercial and benefits the topic (Group) Decision Support Systems or "Group decision making" because it enables and supports those. I do not understand a link to this page as advertising neither wikipedia links or articles about facebook, ibm, ebay just to name a few. Contrary to your statement that such a link is spamming, there are whole articles on wikipedia about companies that offer products and services, including links to those. Does that imply that creating a whole article about metallon.org, a non-commercial aid to group decision making would validate the usage of a link? Supporting my contribution to the article "Group decision support system" is the statement on WP:NOTLINK "There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to an article" --metalray