User talk:Mike Shostak

April 2015
Hello, I'm JohnBlackburne. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to 3D printing because they appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 02:48, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello JohnBlackburne. Thank you for letting me know. I agree that it may seem promotional, but I guess it also can be useful for those who is looking for 3d printing filaments. I think they just try to provide the list from different offers and actually do not earn anything/too much from it. Mike Shostak


 * You should look at the page External links for guidance on adding links. In particular under Links normally to be avoided, number 5 is "Individual web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services", which the link you added certainly was. Readers can search themselves for shopping information using e.g. Google and get generally much more useful information – to multiple local retailers not just a single US one for example.-- JohnBlackburne wordsdeeds 03:24, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Hello JohnBlackburne, Thank you for the additional explanation. Just for the sake of curiosity, to me this link "www.3ders.org/pricecompare/3dprinters/" which is in "external Links" also not only informative since it contains links that can redirect users to buy 3d printers. So it also may be considered as "Individual web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services", but probably it was not.. :) p.s. the link I tried to add contains information for Europe as well. I am from Europe and found this resource when I was trying to find a filament for my 3D printer. Mike Shostak