User talk:Thunderstix

February 2008
As I'm sure you know, the links that you left on several pages today have been reverted as spam. Please don't do that anymore, or you may end up banned. NJGW (talk) 06:28, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Clean Tech Law & Business
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April 2008
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

'''I have removed multiple spam links to various "clean tech" sites from a number of articles. Do not add any more. I can and will block you if this continues. DGG''' (talk) 17:04, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

I am trying to contribute to Wikipedia because I think its a valuable resource for individuals. I happen to know a lot about clean tech and thus have focused primarily on making contributions in that area. In my experience, readers can only trust information to the extent they can verify it with additional sources. This is standard operating procedure in any academic discipline. I don't understand why you consider external citations "spam." I have relied on Wikipedia as a point of departure in learning about any given topic and, in my view, much of its value depends on the quality of sources it guides readers toward. I disagree with your characterization of the external links I've cited as "spam" and believe most of those who are familiar with clean tech would do the same. I've only linked to websites that are widely considered to be authorities on whatever topic I've sighted them for. I will review the policies on citations, but more likely will simply stop contributing. I can appreciate advice and even a warning, but your last sentence sounds more like a threat and that is how I've interpreted it. thunder (talk)


 * Hi Thunder. Your links may not be spam exactly, but they do fall under the guidelines of what not to link to, specifically the first, fifth, and sixth entries.  I definitely commend you on the upcoming journal, and I'm sure you have a lot to offer as an editor, but because of your affiliation you should only help with editing content that won't create a potential conflict of interests.  Remember, if everyone who has a company to promote (no matter how noble it may be) starts putting up links in the articles, we would be awash with commercial links and at a loss over how to choose which were the "good" ones.  I hope those issues help explain why some might come accross a bit harshly when defending wikipedia (it can be easy to forget that new comers are good for Wikipedia).  NJGW (talk) 03:55, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

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