User talk:Rtideas

December 2015
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Emergency Response Guidebook. 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. Thank you. Melcous (talk) 22:09, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Is this the talk page that I discuss it on?

I do not think it is spam by any means. Hazmat training is challenging enough. I found the free Emergency Response Guidebook Game was valuable resource that engages hazmat training students to use and understand the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG) for dealing with an emergency response. People need to know how to use the ERG, and the game is a free resource. Many of my students ask for the link after a class. Yes it is unfortunately Flash-based, but was told that are trying to make a HTML5 version and still keep it free.

The ERG is updated every four years with the best information for the time. As such, the external link to the 2004 ERG should be removed since the data it contains is out of date--could have improper evacuation distances and other inaccuracies.

There is much on the page that can be changed. The image (2008 ERG) is one release behind. The 2016 version is just around the corner, and was looking into updating the information to the most current and accurate for the time. --Rtideas (talk) 01:40, 8 December 2015 (UTC)