User talk:Teishen

Gettysburg links
You are doing a lot of editing, adding a inappropriate external links. Look in WP:EL, third sentence. Wikipedia is not the vehicle for promoting your website. I suggest that you create your own user page and link to your external site there. If you would like to do a service to the Wikipedia reader, you are invited to upload some of your better photographs to Wikipedia and insert some of them directly into the appropriate articles. Hal Jespersen 19:43, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

July 2010
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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 web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site 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 article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Tedickey (talk) 18:39, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

External links and using photographs instead
Please have a look at the WP:EL guideline for information about external links. You're adding a number of links to your personal website. While this isn't completely forbidden (it's considered "normally to be avoided"), you probably ought to link directly to the gallery pages (with the photographs of the ships in question), rather than to the navigation page. Of course, your website has informative, useful photographs, so I wouldn't want you to exclude them from the article.

In fact, there may be a better solution. Would you consider offering your photographs under a licence compatible with Wikipedia, so that they could be used in articles directly? There's a straightforward procedure at Donating copyrighted materials. Basically, you would need to pick a licence (often CC-BY-SA, which is compatible with this site), or release them to the public domain with CC0 or similar. Then, you'd need to send an e-mail to the address listed there (permissions-commons@wikimedia.org) telling them exactly which images are licenced (e.g. "all images hosted at...") and identify yourself as the copyright owner. At that point, you or another user could upload them directly to Wikimedia Commons (which is a file repository used with Wikipedia). TheFeds 18:42, 24 July 2010 (UTC)