User talk:Rcauvin

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! --Bobblehead 16:24, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
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Reading the strict policy on external links, I see that some of my recent additions are questionable. It is not my intent to spam but to provide useful information. In the public transportation area, there are two types of services that riders want to know about, but information is sparse. One of the service types is web-based trip planners. The other type of service is similar but based on text messaging from mobile phones. The transit authorities typically provide the web-based service but endorse the text messaging services of other companies. If a rider of a particular transit authority's buses or trains needs information on the text messaging services, what is an acceptable way for Wikipedia to satisfy their need for such information? Rcauvin 13:25, 6 March 2007 (UTC) rcauvin
 * I'd advise you to use the article's talk page in such a case (read through the Tutorial if you haven't already to learn about talk pages). You should suggest the links in question to other editors on that page, explaining why you think they should be added. If they agree with you, you can add the links (with 'see talk' in your edit summary to stop people removing them in ignorance of the situation); if you get no reply after a while (say a week), you can add the links with 'no objections to these links on talk' in your edit summary, and then hopefully they won't be removed without someone giving a good reason! Hope that helps; feel free to place helpme back up if you have any further questions. --ais523 13:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Using the discussion page for the article as you mentioned seems like a good idea. rcauvin
 * (Edit conflict) My point of view. Generally if someone is looking for info on text messaging services, then they would go to the official site for that info. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information and most would regard TMS as trivial information. A link to the home page of the transport provider is suitable enough, because people can get to the TMS information from that link.Harryboyles 13:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I suppose the distinction is between trivial and useful information. If someone wants to know about the transit authority, they could similarly just go to the transit authority's page, but Wikipedia nonetheless has an article of its own for each transit authority, along with a city-specific transportation page that contains similar information.  It seems to me that visitors to a Wikipedia page about public transportation in a city would want to know the different ways they can access schedule information.  But I like ais523's suggestion of letting the discussion page for an article be a guide for proper inclusion of content. rcauvin
 * Sorry it took so long for me to respond, but it looks like you used the helpme tag. You may wish to consider linking to Public transport planner and expanding that page so it's not just a list of links to various transportation planner systems.  That way you don't have to spam the links to all transportation related pages and Wikipedia gets an improved article. --Bobblehead 18:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)