User talk:Photodunedin

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Please stop adding your commercial site to every second wikipedia article - SimonLyall 09:31, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Seconded. Your behaviour is grounds for a ban/block if not stopped. MadMaxDog 09:36, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok. All your edits have been reverted since they seem to be just promoting your site. Unfortunely there are a large number of photo websites on the Internet. If you think that a specific article may benifit by a link to your site you should probably siggest it on the talk page of the article first. Especially don't add it to a large number of articles at once. Sorry for this rough start, hope things go better in the future. - SimonLyall 09:48, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Re - Photo Gallery Links
Hi Simon, MadMaxDog, I thought the links I placed were to galleries that were not overtly commercial, unlike many of the remaining links on the same pages. Additionally they were to galleries that give a far better idea of places (i.e. over 1000 images of Dunedin) compared to the very mediocre photo galleries that you have let remain on virtually every article.

I certainly think the articles benefit a lot more by the links I provided compared to some of the remaining ones (whose pictures have either no captions at all, or totally irrelevant ones that add nothing). I realise there are a large number of photo sites on the internet, but 99.9% of them have little of relevance to to articles I linked to. Take Getty for example (the worlds most dominant photo library) and check their Dunedin selection. Every link I placed was to a gallery that had a large coverage of the topic - including aerial overviews of every region linked to.

Surely if you are going to remove links to photo galleries, you should not just remove the ones that have high quality, accurately captioned images, with an in depth coverage of the topic - you should also remove the ones that are poorly captioned, with low quality images, with little coverage of the subject. Did you even check them against the existing links at all?

I don't know of any commercial photo buyers who would ever go to wikipedia to look for images. However our website is used all the time by schools and students as one of the best resources of images of the areas we cover. We put a lot of effort into accurately captioning and keywording our images - more time than we do taking them.

So I beleive the few links I added would have benefited the articles and added to the total sum of knowledge - far more than virtually every one of the photo gallery links on the very same pages that you didn't remove. Cheers, David