User talk:Rod Giobbs

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Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia, as you did on Mechanical Engineering. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. You are, however, encouraged to add appropriate content to the encyclopedia. If you feel the material in question 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. Gamer83 15:24, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I am new to Wikipedia and as of yet do not know how, if possible at all, to respond to the messages above other than writing here so I hope you are picking this up. Gamer83, I am an engineer and the site I included is a useful resource. It's not my site and I am not promoting it. The page on Mechanical Engineering would be well served by that link. Will you replace it, or keep it off. This is not a good intro to Wikipedia for me, looks like you are one of those grumpy users Simonkoldyk warned me about
 * Your addition of an obvious spam link to Hydrology on 3 January 2007 shows that your statement above is pretty much nonsense. You know quite well the difference between useful resources and advertising spam. The IAEA link added to Hydrology is patently not the international association it claims to be. Please do not post advertising spam on wikipedia or you will be blocked. Phaedrus86 22:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Rod Giobbs 03:39, 4 June 2007 (UTC)Gamer83 and Phaedrus86, I am not spamming, and your two cocky an arrogant responses show you are the worst of the wikipedia community. Look at my activity on the site, how can you say I'm spamming. I know these job sites as I'm an engineer and my wife is a biologist, and the publsher of the sites is a legit organization providing credible sources for the respective pages on wikipedia which could use additional info. Phaedrus86, you have proven your lack of precision as the organization is IAEH dimwit, get it right! why don't you go to a bona fide internet resource, like alexa.com, assuming you are that adept, and you'll see that site had been on line 12 yrs. I don't care about the owner of the site, I'm just saying how can you deny the viability of such sites!! It has a google 6 page rank for crying out loud! I'm guessing you only like to see your own sites, probably ones you are paid to promote here, in the links section, and you have no life and troll around here deleting legit content off wikipedia, with imprecision as you've just shown. One thing is for sure though - there is absolutely nothing in the spirit of wikipedia which would dictate that you take such an aggressive stance with a new user such as myself, completely putting me on the defensive. Look at my first message, it's clear I'm not a spammer I wrote in a friendly way and unlike most wiki spammers I actually create an account and write a message - how many spammers do that? Gamer83, your message was more subdued, but could you have the decency to respond to me and acknowledge what I had to say. Let me ask you both this - can either of you present a legit website as resources for mechanical engineers or hydrology jobs as the ones I did? I'm just promoting quality content on the web, but you two seem blind to that and running agendas, and bent on insulting innocent users of wikipedia, contributing to the sentiment gaining ground line that wikipedia is a vehicle for others. If you wanted to foster community, you could have at least bothered to research the sites I posted and not come back as pompous internet trolls. You people are losers!

Hey one more thing to you deadbeats, thinking you are such wikipedia zealots, why don't you read point 2 above - don't bite the newcomers. You are truly despicable examples of the worst on the net you attacked me unabashedly and probably have no true knowledge of what really constitutes spam, you are just losers looking for an outlet to offend some people who try to contribute to wikipedia meaningly