User talk:NeilBag

Hi there and welcome to Wikipedia. Could you shed any light on the constant changes to the 'external links' section of Keratoconus that have been made recently? You can reply here or on my talk page. Thanks, BillC 17:53, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Bill,

I'm new to Wikipedia, I probably should have contacted you to ask if you had taken off the KCsupport link. I saw nothing on the discussion page and noticed the edit function so reentered my site ( Kcsupport).

When I did this I initially made a mistake of deleting KCGlobal but shortly reentered it, I saw a new site which seemed to have a slightly different spin on Keratoconus, although admittedly not fully finished and I thought it might be a useful new link.

I did check out the discussion page and could not see a reason why Kcsupport was taken down, so perhaps wrongly I just put it back up. I noticed that it was gone again yesterday; I’ll admit that I am puzzled as to why we are not suitable. Kcsupport has been around for a few years now, focused on support for the family including the difficulties of children being diagnosed with Keratoconus. We have a growing number of members and doctors who contribute to the site; we are also involved with a Keratoconus book project. Our aim is on support and information for people with Keratoconus as well as a contact point for patients and Keratoconus doctors.

I wouldn’t regard it as a blog or homepage and I believe your comments are valid ones regarding these issues. Although I admit that I feel Keratoconus doesn’t get the exposure that it needs and so when ever there is a new resource or site I wish that the whole world would know about it, yet I also understand the scope of Wikipedia and that not every link is suitable.

I’m not very familiar with the protocols of Wikipedia and I apologize for not contacting you directly.

Regards,

Neil


 * Hello, and thanks for your reply. No. I'm not the one removing anyone's text from the external links section. I just noticed that there had been strange little battle of two links continually getting exchanged at the end of the article and wondered why. You can see this by clicking on the 'History' tab from the Keratoconus article. There's no problem with having both links and I wondered what this small 'edit war' was about. The other editor appears to be editing anonymously, so there may not be much chance to communicate with him/her, but I'll see if I can get in touch.


 * (By the way, you should sign your posts on talk pages, by typing four tildes: ~ . They get converted to a signature and a time stamp when you save.)


 * Again, welcome to Wikipedia, and I hope you enjoy contributing to the project! BillC 21:49, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Hi Bill, Thanks for the quick reply; I don’t regard it as any battle on my behalf. I’m not deleting any other link only re-adding mine. If my link has moved to an upward position it’s not intentional ranking, it’s just the way I cut and pasted in the link, it’s not important to me if my link is at the top or the bottom. I agree that all the links are relevant and that all should remain. Thanks again

Regards

Neil NeilBag 23:14, 18 July 2006 (UTC)