User talk:Jmputz

Welcome!

Hello Jmputz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, some of your edits have not conformed to Wikipedia's NPOV policy, and have been reverted. There's a great article about the NPOV policy that has tips on how to effectively write about disparate points of view without compromising the NPOV status of the article as a whole. Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

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Please no Link spam

Please do not add commercial links — or links to your own private websites — to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. You made me quite some work to remove all of your linkspams in the different Scottish Malt Whisky articles :-( --Pmkpmk 18:16, 4 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm really sorry if the fact to add some links to a site which is widely known as a reference on the matter is considered by you as being spamlinks. The idea was not to pollute the wikipedia database, but just to give the possibiility to people to go further in their knowledge in this matter. I'm sorry if it took you time and work to remove my links. Please believe it took me also time to add them. And I did this because various visitors of my site asked me to do so.

Partly in answer to an email the OP sent to me:

I am sorry to hear that you feel bad due to my edits of your link entries. Of course I had a look at your website before I made the changes, and it looked like a department store's catalogue to me.

There is a best practice at Wikipedia, that articles should only have a maximum of 3 external links. When you write an article about a distillery, then the distilleries homepage is of course one of those links - even though I agree with you that there are many distilleries whose websites are neither informative nor good looking. Nevertheless, setting a link to an articles subject's homepage is the natural thing to do, regardless if it is a distillery or a person.

I agree with you that many of the other links set are also more of a promotional nature. However, those links where set before I started to edit the Whisky articles. Therefore I am reluctant to remove them right away. I am not full-time editing, but I can assure you that I am looking at each and every Whisky article in due course and edit them according to Wikipedia rules. This will result in the removal of quite a lot of other external links.

I totally disagree on your approach to state your site as authoritive and your conclusion to rather not extend Wikipedia articles. I can understand your perspective as a Webmaster, however Wikipedias goal is to become a top source of all kinds of information. I think I can safely speak for the Wikipedia community that you are most welcome to edit all the articels in question and extend them with varifiable unique information. Of course it is your decision to invest your work solely on your own website and not share it with the Wikipedia community - nothing prevents you to use the same articles on BOTH sites as long as you are the author.

I would really like to see you contributing your knowledge on the different Wikipedia articles. I would have not objected a single link to the main page of your site from the top Whisky category of Wikipedia. But I am sorry: setting deep links to the same site from individual Wikipedia articles IS linkspam in its purest form.

I hope this explains a bit.--Pmkpmk 11:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]