User talk:Omnithruster

External links on pump jet and bow thruster
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia.

Based on your username and link you posted, you clearly need to read the Wikipedia policies about conflict of interest and external links. I'll note for the record that you did make a valuable contribution to bow thruster however. Just don't add links to your company. -Amatulic 22:56, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Reply to email
Please discuss article edits on talk pages rather than private email. In your email to me, you wrote: ''I disagree with the removal of the link in the bow thruster page. I made edits to the content of the bow thruster page, which had no reference to waterjet thrusters. A link to the Omnithruster web site was included, as there is a significant amount of information available on our page with regards to the technology. Several other bow thruster manufacturers have included their web sites as well.''

Your contribution to the text of the article is appreaciated. With respect to the external link, I refer you again to the policies (named above) that you are violating by inserting a link to your own company into a Wikipedia article. I have explained my objection on the Talk:Bow thruster page, as well as removed the external link to your competitor, which wasn't appropriate either.

The primary purpose of external links is to point the reader to sources of information that are beyond the scope of the article. If your web site provides information appropriate to the article, then by all means expand the article. There's no rationale for linking to bow thruster manufacturer web sites if the article is sufficiently encyclopedic. -Amatulic 20:10, 27 September 2007 (UTC)