User talk:P-chu

September 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Chinese Gold Panda with this edit do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Trusilver 05:36, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

 Well, now I'm curious as to what it was that made you think the external links were spam-like or inappropriate? My first link was from Investing-in-Gold-And-Silver-Coins.com, which had the only article I could find in an hour that seemed current, easy to follow, and easy to understand. It was also my only source of information for my addition about the 2007 "exception" to the standard issues of coins (without spending more hours searching and comparing); frankly, I think it is a better informative article than Wikipedia's current Chinese Gold Panda. My second link, which I added to the "External Links" section--a site for the "official distributer in the U.S."--was no different from the original & first link placed there--another "official distributer in China"--and more importantly, it has pictures of how the coins look for every year to present. The only other way I can quickly think of doing it would be to mostly reproduce that table of pictures in the Wiki article.

 Now I had quickly read the guidelines for external links before adding the links. By my common sense opinion, since my first link was my cited source, and my second link seemed initially remarkable with it's pictures of each year's coin (among other infos), I did not think it would be considered objectionable. I'm quite surprised that both links were eliminated, and marked as spam. Especially when one of them is a cited source and absolutely had no information about price, what coin is offered for sale, or how to order. Further more, you can't find any links in that site that offer a means to purchase or order coins, just descriptions of different gold coins. The only thing questionable about that site is whether or not it is entirely accurate and unbias.

· P-chu (talk) 08:34, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

I just double checked the article, and it was not just the links that was removed, which would be in keeping of the spam marking, but also all the edits I added, which is completely uncalled for. Did you just simply do an undo?

·P-chu (talk) 03:12, 1 October 2011 (UTC)