User talk:Mgshutter

July 2020
Hello, I'm Apparition11. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Konkan have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 10:32, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

In reply to your email
Hello. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. We are not here to promote anything, including a site promoting tourism. You are welcome to donate pictures to Wikipedia. If you did this, please be aware that it would allow anyone, not just Wikipedia, to share, distribute, transmit, and adapt your work. All they would be required to do is to attribute you as the author. Of course, we wouldn't want a watermark or anything included in the picture. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 11:13, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

If you wish to discuss content, please do so here. I do not discuss matters privately. I believe that Wikipedia is meant to be open, and other editors should be able to see conversations that concern content. In your email, you said the "link was added to improve the tourism..." and "link is mean to promote the tourism...". So, I don't see how it's a debatable topic. If you want to add content backed up by published third-party sources or pictures, that is great, but promoting that website is not. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 11:37, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

This is mgshutter. I am not sure how the discussion here goes so I am going to try it. Yesterday, I tried uploading two pictures, none of them had copyright flag, none of them were big in size, and they immediately were given an error saying there is some issue without mentioning anything. So what I realized is the system of image upload is broken because these were not copyrighted or other images, had very small size and I spent like 10 min to upload a couple of images but nothing worked. If a website that shows quality exposure of a landscape giving users a better perspective because wikipedia can not do that itself, and if you say its promoting a website I do not agree that, because the aim is to help users get best information available when they land on a page, many of which are completely unaware of the information otherwise how a certain place could be. Now if that is done by a third party website or some thing else, if it adds value to the experience that is important to be a part of this information archive. I am not saying you allow all links, but its based on cases where the quality matters. Whether it promotes tourism or not or whatever, this is an important source of information which is a part of the entire flow of information for such places, because people mostly search for these places when they are looking for information for tourism or related purposes, hence in a nutshell it also promotes tourism because that is mostly the aim when people are looking for this information mostly at least for this specific small village in a remote Indian part because I am from this area and I know how backward this area is in terms of its development and how it needs correct exposure to get its due....So if wikipedia because of its policies want to keep its users away from quality content which they themselves can't provide because no one is paying attention to such outdated pages (I again say this page is very outdated and there has been tremendous changes to this place since when it must have edited and these photographs are a testimony of these changes and the users visiting this should be shown that as a story which this website does. If you want to stick to your story of wiki policies and no promotion story its upto you but then wikipedia is losing its real purpose of user generated content that gives quality information about related knowledge that a person is looking for because of their self declared policies. Thank you. You have your policies which you decide sitting in some part of the world, which are important to maintain a clean open ecosystem, but there are outdated pages like these which no one bothers to edit in ages because no one cares and if you enforce your policies on such pages, chances are there will not be any edits on them in the future also, and hence they continue to serve outdated information to its users, all because some restrictive non-promotional policies that should be correctly applied for heavily updated pages otherwise are also applied to these kind of small pages. Thanks.
 * As long as the images are released to the correct licenses, they can certainly be hi-resolution. Only non-free images have to be smaller size. Wikimedia Commons would be the ideal place to upload these images. They can be linked to articles here from there. If you still have a problem with uploading them, perhaps the nice people at the WP:TEAHOUSE can assist you. I don't have much experience in uploading images. Again, if the content is outdated, then the best way to improve it is to add reliably sourced content to the article. Obviously, as an encyclopedia, while images can certainly benefit an article, it is the text that is the key to a good, up-to-date article. Apparition11 Complaints/ Mistakes 22:36, 2 July 2020 (UTC)