User talk:PeterFlannery

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September 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. One or more of the external links you added in this edit to the page Bandwidth (signal processing) 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 for advertising or promotion. You may wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Shark96z (talk) 15:27, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

musiccalculator.com links

You have posted a variety of links pointing to www.musiccalculator.com and your links have been removed by myself and Shark96z. In general, external links should meet the guidelines established at Wikipedia:External links. This guideline says, among other things, that external links should be directly relevant to the subject matter. Your link to the pitch shifting calculator, for instance, was not directly relevant to the Pitch (music) article—it would have been more relevant to somebody engaged in actual pitch shifting. Also, links that aren't reliably functional are to be avoided. My first few contacts with your links revealed a text display of xml errors, not a working page. How do I know that your code fix today will hold out tomorrow? Finally, external links are not required or sought; if present they should be kept to a minimum and are only to be used if they substantially add to the user experience by offering more detail or more rich media. I find your calculator links to be lacking in encyclopedic content in that the user does not learn about why the numbers turn up the way they do after the calculation is complete. Instead of being a teaching tool, it is the tool of an end user. I don't think Wikipedia is here to provide end user tools; I think it is here to provide learning tools. Binksternet (talk) 17:12, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

My response is at User_talk:Binksternet#musiccalculator.com_links. PeterFlannery (talk) 14:37, 23 September 2009 (UTC)