User talk:Visualmap

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EL links in mind map
Please do not add the EL links to that article, it would be considered spam, and could lead to a block form editing. Thanks. Tmtoulouse (talk) 16:38, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm - this is interesting, seeing as the existing links are: 1st one: illumine training, advertising iMindMap and their training services 2nd one: selling lots of mind mapping software (though not directly on that page) 3rd one: another link to illumine training, again with iMindMap prominently advertised 4th one: advertising TopicScape 5th one: advertising iMindMap 6th one: broken link 7th one: the first one that appears to be independent! 8th one: advertising NovaMind and iMindMap

So there is only one that does not appear to have commercial intent. Furthermore none of the other links posted provide anywhere near the amount of information the links I was adding have, and none of them have videos showing how it all works - in fact many of them don't even have example mind map images, which is rather bizarre considering that it is a highly visual thing.

Which leaves me with the question - I would like to provide links to articles that are useful to people, but wikipedia rejects articles that link to hubpages or squidoo and although I didn't try it, I suppose they would reject links to any of the video sites to just link to the videos. So can I at least post one or two of those links, or how is it best to provide links to the relevant information? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.