User talk:Triplewiki

assetprotectionmagazine.com links
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link 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. --Siobhan Hansa 00:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Triplewiki, thanks for leaving me a message. I'm sorry if I seemed hasty, your pattern of editing was typical of people promoting their own sites, and since I didn't think the site itself met the external links guidelines I stepped in quickly. I have two main concerns with the site:


 * Its provenance is unclear. There's nothing I could find on the site that talks about who writes and publishes it. Maybe you found some information i didn't, but I was suprised to see you say it was a nonprofit site - it clearly makes revenue from the Google adsense advertizing, and I could find no indication of charitable status (please let me know if I missed an about us link or something). In general, external links should be to sites that would meet our reliable source guidelines.


 * There's also the issue of the content really being stuff that could go in the articles. In general external links we add are supposed to be of a standard that could be used for a source, but contain information that is unsuited to an encyclopedia article.  It seemed like, if the site were suitable to be a source, the content itself could be paraphrased for the articles instead of being linked out to.  This guideline is about furthering wikipedia's mission to build open content on Wikipedia.  Links to external websites generally link to copyrighted infromation that cannot be used in the same way.


 * Still, I'm only one editor, just like you. If you think the links do meet the guidelines, you can post to the talk pages and see if other editors agree.  I'll support any consensus from the talk pages.  --Siobhan Hansa 00:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)


 * PS Welcome to editing! I hope this experience hasn't put you off. We need good editors!  --Siobhan Hansa 00:50, 3 November 2006 (UTC)