User talk:Randy G

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Links to your site
Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Interiot 16:42, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Please stop adding commercial or personal-website links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --Interiot 12:15, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Responding to email
(cc'd from an email response)

A couple of points...

I have nothing against your site specifically. It's just that Wikipedia prefers to focus on building encyclopedic pages rather than amassing as many links as possible. Please see the Open Directory Project if you're interested in accumulating links for cars.

Yes, many of the pages on your site are informative. Per External links, informative links should really be incorporated into articles, rather than simply linking to offsite pages which provide a couple paragraphs of information. I haven't reverted all (or even most) of your links because they are somewhat helpful. However, an account that is used solely to add external links to many pages in rapid succession has a good chance of being indefinitely blocked sooner or later.

Most importantly, External links says that site owners should not add links to sites they own. If it's an informative link, mention it on an article's talk page, and other people will add it for you.

Nearly as importantly, please don't add the exact same link to 10 different pages in a short period of time, it's a really obvious sign that linkspam is going on. If you have an external link for Ford's general history, add it to Ford only, don't go and add the same link to Ford Mustang and Ford Festiva and 10 other pages, when the link doesn't mention Mustangs or Festivas at all (or only mentions them perhipherally).

Yes, we have a lot of inappropriate links. Yes, lately we're working harder to clean these up. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles or Wikipedia talk:External links. Commercial links are allowed, but things like links to ford.com are almost always added by individuals not associated with Ford Motor Company. --Interiot 10:51, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Responding to Feb2007 email
Howdy RandyG, I removed links to your site for the same reason that Interiot outlined above. As for your questions, I have no agenda to push other than to add content to Wikipedia itself - I have absolutely no websites of my own. I sincerely hope that you will consider taking the unique content from your site and incorporate it into the Wikipedia article text on the appropriate pages. Mrand 14:47, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Reversions
Please discuss reversions before you make them unless the summary line gives enough information. Just because you don't like what something says, doesn't mean the you should revert it. Nasty 22:18, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Erasing talkpage warnings
Please do not delete or edit legitimate talk page comments; this is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Ronbo76 01:17, 10 March 2007 (UTC)


 * BTW, when you just did that edit, it shows up in your history tab on the top of your page and on my Watchpage. Ronbo76 01:42, 10 March 2007 (UTC)