User talk:Davenomiddlenamecurtis

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Hi,

Please stop going around adding links to your personal web site on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a link farm or a place to promote your personal site; see WP:EL for guidelines.

FWIW, I run a somewhat more established and well-known skating-related web site than yours, and you don't see me inserting links to it in WP.... or anyone else adding links to it, either. It's just not appropriate content. Dr.frog (talk) 16:53, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you're really being fair. Did you look at my page? I don't think there's another page which shows how to do the basic jumps and spins the way mine does. I know I don't do them very well but at least I have instructions and a video clip of each move. I checked that the pages on wikipedia don't have this before adding my link.

Which is your page, BTW? I'd like to take a look at it.

I know I'm not conforming to the talk page style but in my opinion you're abusing your position so I don't feel too badly about it.

Please check out my page and see if I don't have a valid point.

Davenomiddlenamecurtis (talk) 23:53, 14 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I did look at your site. If you have new information and video clips that are not available elsewhere on Wikipedia that you'd like to share, please consider contributing that material directly to Wikipedia rather than linking to materials at your personal site. Dr.frog (talk) 00:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have considered contributing the site to wikipedia. However, I'm not sure where it would fit with the figure-skating article as it stands. It would also be a lot of work for me to reformat all the material. I don't want to go to all the trouble of doing that when I have a perfectly good page already set up. Especially if somebody like you might just come along and arbitrarily delete it.

The pages I have are not just random "me skating" photos. They comprise a comprehensive set of instructions, diagrams and videos which are not available anywhere else on the net. In my view the pages absolutely meet the criteria for an external link.

I honestly think the page is informative and helpful and there is no advertising or anything. I really don't see what harm it does to have a link to it from the main wikipedia page.

Davenomiddlenamecurtis (talk) 17:10, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You seem to be having some misunderstanding about the purpose of contributing to Wikipedia. The idea is to contribute content that makes Wikipedia itself better, not to contribute links to content on external sites. Please go read WP:EL, particularly items 1 and 11 under "Links normally to be avoided" and the entire section on "Advertising and conflicts of interest", which strongly advises against adding an external link to your own web site even if does not fall under the "Links normally to be avoided" restrictions. I'm sorry, you aren't going to get anywhere by arguing with me about this, and asking for an exception for your harmless little web site; it is overall Wikipedia policy. Dr.frog (talk) 23:23, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I can see I'm not going to get anywhere arguing with somebody like you. I read what you wrote and 1 doesn't apply and 11 doesn't apply.

Anyhow, good luck with your on-going attempts to make wikipedia less useful than it would otherwise be. I have better things to be getting on with.

November 2009

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. If you vandalize Wikipedia again, you will be blocked from editing. -FASTILY ^(TALK) 00:07, 15 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi.

All I am trying to do is add a link to a perfectly informative web page which conforms to the wikipedia guidelines for external links.

In my view, I was the victim of vandalism from the guy that removed the link I added.

Please just at least take a look at the content of the site I am trying to add. It features helpful instructions to skaters accompanied by informative video clips. None of this is available in the wikipedia articles themselves.

I have plenty of hits without a wikipedia link. It just seems silly to me that somebody should look up these things on wikipedia and not be presented with the information which is available on my site.

Please get back to me and let me know what you think. If there's some good reason why my site should not appear as an external link then I'd be glad to hear it.

Regards

- Dave Curtis