User talk:P-rinePear

January 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) 14:19, 14 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Hey! Great, thanks for that. It's my first time editing, so glad to get some help. How does it look now? I've added the solar panel option, and an external link to show that this is indeed not just a made up fact (the external link goes to wikifactory where a how-to of the solar panel can be found). I'm not sure if that counts as advertising or promotion, because it's not intended for the aim of monetary gains at all, but rather to show that this is really happening and possible to do. Another option would be to link to a magazine article that talks about the panel, but this strikes me as more promotional than the link to wikifactory... let me know what you think. P-rinePear (talk) 16:40, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * That is a list of projects with prexisting Wikipedia articles. You should not be adding external links. The article should be written first (WP:WTAF) MrOllie (talk) 16:51, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * ah okay wait, so then I have to write a wikipedia article about the solar panels first? If yes, I don't have the time to do it right now, so can I jsut leave 'solar panel' information without the external link? although that doesn't seem very useful to someone who's going to read over it and then doesn't have any further information about it... P-rinePear (talk) 16:55, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Because for example OpenEV and LibreComputer have external links to explain what the project is, which seems much more clear to me. P-rinePear (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * OpenEVSE and the Libre Computer Project have articles, and also have an added citation. Not an external link. Wikipedia isn't a directory of external links, so please do not add external links to this list, or any entry without a corresponding Wikipedia article - not even as placeholders. MrOllie (talk) 17:24, 14 January 2023 (UTC)