User talk:Mr. Aerodynamics

July 2023
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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.  MrOllie (talk) 16:15, 2 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your feedback. I have read through the Wikipedia guidelines for external links and understand your concerns.
 * However, to add interesting content to Wikipedia pages for readers, I have included figures from aerodynamic studies and research that I have done. To make these figures credible I have cited the source of these studies, which are naturally hosted on the AirShaper website.
 * I appreciate that I am associated with this company however all the links I have included in my contributions are to specific sources that back up the figures I have added, not to any marketing material or website homepages. I have also taken great care to add useful links to other sources and to ensure these are in the correct format.
 * I am passionate about providing free technical content and was hoping to use Wikipedia as a platform to do this and become a valued contributor. So any advice on how to include links to sources without being seen as self-promotion would be greatly appreciated.
 * Also, I see that some of our competitors have company Wikipedia pages - how did they get these published if they can’t be written by someone who is associated with the company?
 * Thanks for your help! Mr. Aerodynamics (talk) 11:00, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
 * So any advice on how to include links to sources without being seen as self-promotion would be greatly appreciated. There really isn't a workaround here - your company website is not a reliable source - we don't use selfpublished websites or videos as sources. If you are a subject matter expert who is here to grow Wikipedia, you are no doubt familiar with a wide range of sources of diverse authorship. Cite people who have nothing to do with your company instead.
 * Also, I see that some of our competitors have company Wikipedia pages - how did they get these published if they can’t be written by someone who is associated with the company?
 * The obvious conclusion is that they were written by somebody unaffiliated with their company, based on independently written sources. I couldn't br any more specific than that. MrOllie (talk) 13:22, 10 July 2023 (UTC)