User:JonHarder/Archive/2

deletion of Leonard Bosack page

Could you please explain why you deleted all the material on the Leonard Bosack page? (I had contributed the image of the business card, and just today noticed the request to obscure the phone numbers, hence looked at the page; otherwise I don't generally watch stuff.) But, presumably the deletion of all the other stuff had nothing to do with the bus card.

peter 07:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Most of the former content of that page was copied directly from another source. I followed the copyright problems directions which state "revert the page to a non-copyrighted version if you can." By all means, restore anything that is appropriate and not part of the copyvio problems. JonHarder ^talk 14:03, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Extreme Networks

Hi, I just noticed that someone had deleted the entries that I made yesterday regarding information about Extreme Networks. Is there some rules that I violated? Please let me know so I came make the proper edits to comply.

Thanks, Ed —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edchao (talk • contribs) 19:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Please read all of WP:COI carefully. Also read the two essays listed at the bottom. I suggest you provide your relationship to Extreme Networks on your user page. I will again revert your edits and await your affiliation disclosure. JonHarder ^talk 00:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

This is in regards to the note left by Ed Chao for Extreme Networks. Ed Chao is an employee of Extreme Networks and is the webmaster there. He was posting the information that I provided to him. My name is Jennifer Moffat. I am also an employee of Extreme Networks. Our previous Wikipedia site had information that read like an advertisement and we wanted to include information that was more clinical and informational rather than positive or negative regarding the company. Can you let me know what rules we've violated in posting our information on the wikipedia site? We would like to make changes to comply with wikipedia standards.

Thanks,

Jennifer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.179.9.4 (talk • contribs) 23:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

You should start by reading the conflict of interest guideline which states you should "avoid editing articles related to your organization or its competitors." Also read the two "Further reading" suggestions at the bottom of that page. What you can do is suggest changes by providing the appropriate material on the talk page of that article, Talk:Extreme Networks, asking other neutral editors to consider including it in the article. You should included references for the material. The article also needs references from third party sources (other than reposting Extreme Networks press releases) to help establish notability of the company. Currently the only third party reference is its NASDAQ listing; without that the article would likely have been deleted some time ago! You might also want to look at WP:CORP which outlines requirements for articles on companies and corporations. I hope this helps. JonHarder ^talk 04:30, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Jon- How would you suggest that I update the site with the very basic information about our products, leadership team, etc.? I don't believe it is a conflict of interest as I am posting factual information about Extreme Networks, not trying to sway the public in anyway. It is the whole reason we changed the site from what it was (an advertisement). How does Cisco and Juniper update their sites? Don't they have employees updating them with new information as the company changes or evolves? Is that a conflict of interest? I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't delete the information I've posted and we can further discuss how I can change it to better fit the needs of Wikipedia. Thank you. -Jennifer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.179.9.4 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Jennifer, I have moved this discussion to WT:WPSPAM#Extreme Networks where we can get input from editors who have a lot more experience and insight than I do. I have responded to your questions there. Perhaps others will have responded by the time you see this. If you have any followup questions or concerns, post them there too. Thanks! ✤ JonHarder ^talk 03:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Stub order

Hmm. That's a really good argument for putting the stub tags after the categories. It's not the usual placement for that tag, though. The most common ordering seems to be stub tags, then categories, then interlanguage links. I'm pretty sure there is a guideline somewhere that says the interlanguage links should be at the very end of the article. The Guideline on categorization says that the category tags should go at the bottom of the article, but before the interlanguage links. This implies that stub tags etc. should be above the category tags. This practice might be worth changing, though. I too have been annoyed that the stub category typically appears first in the article's list of categories.--Srleffler 00:49, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

You're welcome

;) User:Zoe|(talk) 02:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Personal Attacks

Your comments on Talk:LAN_gaming_center regarding user Freakdomination would be considered a personal attack and a violation of the no personal attacks policy. Your comments did not focus on the user's content, only on your attempt to discredit the user based on what you felt about the users affiliation. This conforms to one of the examples of a personal attack included in the policy. It would have been better to comment on the user's point of view and content than to try to discredit them based on what you believe their affiliation to be. Freakdomination 00:38, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Would you like to talk about a specific problem? I'm, willing. I am aware that the above text is basically a copy of another note on my talk page, so am not sure if you meant it as a good faith effort to communicate or not. JonHarder ^talk 02:48, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Second opinion: I read over everything at Talk:LAN_gaming_center -- I see no incivility by JonHarder, just appropriate resilience in the face of withering criticism of what some would call attacks. He's also been sticking to the policies and guidelines in the face of strong pressure to ignore them. Exemplary behavior under thecircumstances. --A. B. ^(talk) 09:31, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

I wholeheartedly agree with A. B.. Assuming all the good faith that is due based on Freakdomination's contribution and block history, I hope this is not a petty attempt to embarrass and discredit JonHarder. In any event, I urge removal of this "warning" as completely unfounded and unwarranted. -- Satori Son 05:40, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

If it is an attempt to embarrass and discredit me, it doesn't seem to be doing a very effective job! It can remain on this page as indication that door remains open to any of those unhappy with my pruning that the door to discussion remains open. I believe Freakdomination can turn his energy around and become an asset to Wikipedia. The year end can be a time of reflecting on past mistakes and resolving to do better in the new year. If Freakdomination would like to pursue a dialogue, among other things I would like an explanation of this edit and how he or she is affiliated with the anonymous contributors from the 66.93.251.112/28 network. Happy holidays everyone. JonHarder ^talk 20:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Creating an article about a company

I tried to create an acrticle about a company and it was instantly deleted. I was told that it was considered spamming, although I noticed there were countless other atricles about companies. What do I need to do to ensure that my article is not deleted? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.198.170.221 (talk) 04:01, 22 December 2006 (UTC).

Responding back at Supersteve04038 (talk · contribs) - JonHarder ^talk 04:03, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Deletion of external links

Good morning Jon,

I note that you have deleted the two external links that I placed on Wikipedia yesterday, your reasons given as being possible spam, now excuse me but I thought the whole purpose of Wikipedia was to expand the common knowledge base to other users. I seldom post on Wikipedia because I'm a newbie and find it very hard work, the links themselves took a great deal of time and patience to figure out properly. The two websites in question hold a rich amount of information which would be of use to anyone doing a search on Wikipedia for those particular subjects. I would suggest you take another look, this would be much appreciated, and perhaps reinstating the links. Rich pal 09:45, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Replying on user's talk page. JonHarder ^talk 14:30, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Change to Common.css

Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirit^talk on behalf of Kaldari 01:19, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Addition of the ACM classification system to a few pages

A *while* back I made a CR classification page which you deleted. I have now redirected that page to ACM classification. I have also added links to this page in the Portal:Computer_science/Computer_science_topics, Computer_science#Fields_of_computer_science and List of basic computer science topics pages. I feel that since it is a standard then it should have some mention on these pages. I am however new and thought that you may want to check my work :P Porco-esphino 02:13, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I see no problems. This looks like a good way to handle it. JonHarder ^talk 02:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Update on RMIS

JonHarder - thanks for the edits. I contacted a gentleman with Willis - a large insurance broker who is an expert on RMIS. His name is David Hanson. I asked him if either he could register with wikipedia to contribute (build out) this topic or if we could borrow from a previous article he penned on the subject found at: http://www.asse.org/practice_spec_DHanson.htm

Let me know if this jives? Topiarydan 18:27, 27 December 2006 (UTC)Topiarydan

Wikipedia can always benefit by editors who are experts in a particular field! I hope he follows up on your invitation and tries his hand here. As far as the material on his web page, to permit copying portions of it directly to Wikipedia, he would have to release it under one of the free licenses and say so on that web page. I'm not very knowledgable in this particular field and to my untrained eye that page doesn't look the kind of quality secondary source desribed in the reliable sources guideline.

I applaud you for following the conflict of interest guidelines, by disclosing your professional connections on your talk page and refraining, after some initial edits, from working on Topiary Communications or adding related external links to other articles. If there are corrections or additions you would find helpful in areas related to Topiary, the proper avenue is to state the change on the talk page of the appropriate article, asking other, neutral editors to consider the update. JonHarder ^talk 19:33, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Jon - spoke with David Hanson - he allowed us to add the article to the References and will sign up to assist in editing in the future. There is still the issue of suitable references tag that I was wondering what needs to be done in order to get this RMIS entry up to par for the community? Should I seek more articles? Thanks, TopiarydanTopiarydan 22:05, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds good. It would be good to find at least one other good source so that the general information in the article can be verified. Look at the reliable sources guideline for suggestions of what makes a good source. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 00:56, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Jon - added another key reference Dave Duden from Deloitte - he and David Hanson both gave permission to reference their articles and should be signing up to assist in editing the page in future as well. Didn't know how this topic could be unflagged now that we have authorized references? Thanks for review Thanks, TopiarydanTopiarydan 20, January 2007

Looks good. I removed the lack of references tag. By the way, you don't particularly need permission to list references; the problem comes when copying text directly from another source. You could have removed the tag yourself. It is excellent news that you are getting other experts interested in helping with Wikipedia. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 02:28, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Deleting of external links and labeling as link spam

Hello Jon, Just wondering what your reasons were for deleting links for in hammer mill and pellet mill (feed industry) categories. Are you experienced in these fields? I have worked in this industry for 30 years now. And have worked to build up the information on this section of the Wikipedia.

Recommended links have been added to supplement content in the articles. All linked sites are not "link spam", there is no excess advertising on the sites, and they are 100% additional, useful, supplemental information to what is contained on wiki.

So why the need to delete? and to leave other not so relevant links. I have re-added the links for the benefit of readers looking for extra information on these machinery and the feed industry. Best Regards. Harrymarsden 09:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Links to a site one is affiliated with are to be avoided; if you wish to include such a link, place a request on the talk page of the article and let a neutral editor place it in the article if it suitable. Aside from the conflict of interest issues, the site offers no indication of authenticity. It is basically just another self-published site. JonHarder ^talk 23:12, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Civilian Public Service

It seems like a pretty good article, a thorough history of the subject centering on World War II and the camps and so on. I'm curious what you think needs to be improved. Wahkeenah 23:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Since I have been the only major contributor, perhaps there is some aspect that has been overlooked or a viewpoint missed. I also am not sure if the images are attributed properly. JonHarder ^talk 01:38, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Roger. Wahkeenah 01:54, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

InfoStor articles

InfoStor articles are well-researched and vendor neutral. They expand the body of knowledge on the technology topics we cover. Why delete them? Annsilverthorn

Take a look at the conflict of interest and external links guidelines. If you believe your links are helpful for an article, suggest their inclusion on the article's talk page and let a neutral editor decide if they should be placed in the article. JonHarder ^talk 15:11, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for your help in deleting the self promoting external links added by User:Annsilverthorn. As you can see her contributions to wikipedia are limited to linking to the commercial website she maintains. -- Austin Murphy 23:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

No problem. I believe that the links are high quality and neutral editors will often be willing to include them if asked to on the article's talk page. That presents a win-win situation for Wikipedia and user Annsilverthorn. JonHarder ^talk 23:11, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Concerning StartCom Entries

Hi,

If you can, please send an email to us (linux [at] startcom [dot] org) ,since discussion would be easier. I have a hard time "talking" via wikipedia.

Concerning your concerns:

It is correct, that we created the pages, after some stubs existed already (not created by us) about StartCom Linux. However the information which existed was partly wrong and incomplete (well, it was a stub). So we decided to invest time and effort to provide the best and fair information we could and make the pages informative as possible (and obviously different from our own web sites - hence this is not advertisement or spam, even if the pages created quite some interest in this short time).

I took care, to mention relevant organization, products and services of other parties including our direct competitors. If there is some information missing or different views (which are valid) I invite others to contribute to the StartCom entries, which with the time most likely might happen anyway. Also the main page about StartCom might be not complete and time allowing I'll improve that somewhat.

Also I visited numerous other entries of similar companies, products in the wikipedia and created the pages about StartCom similar. If you feel that there is a conflict somewhere please explain it to me. Thanks a lot for your time! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Startcom (talk • contribs) 20:15, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I prefer to keep discussions open and here on Wikipedia. It is an important part of building consensus among multiple editors. I see you have also left a similar message at WT:WPSPAM#Startcom. I'll follow up there, because it seems to be the most appropriate forum. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 00:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Removal of StartCom Enterprise Linux

May I ask, why you removed the page about StartCom Enterprise Linux? This was the original stub to start with. Second, you should notify users about such things. Look, this is the third time I invested time in this - I'm not going to recreate this pages over and over again. If you don't like it, than correct it. Else lets remove all entries about any of the Linux Vendors on Wikipedia. Well, lets remove all free and/or commercial products as well! I clearly suspect, that you yourself are perhaps affiliated with some other Linux product or vendor! Except that, we don't need the 200 hits I get from wikipedia, we are getting enough without it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Startcom (talk • contribs) 20:23, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I'll also respond to this at WT:WPSPAM#Startcom. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 00:06, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Image Opinion Request

I have added a comment at the WikiProject talk page. Cheers! -- ReyBrujo 01:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Northkill Amish Settlement

Thanks for fixing some of the outrageous errors I made when rewriting the Northkill Amish Settlement article. That's the last time I use a .jpg of a historical marker as a primary source. Wachholder0 20:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Some day I want to use the latest historical research and apply it to the main Amish article. I have far to many other interesting things to do first though! ✤ JonHarder ^talk 21:57, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Fieldbus Technology

Hello JonHarder:

I was not aware that my entries are considered link spam and violated the Wikipedia guidelines. Sorry about that. I am just wondering why some external links to companies are OK while others are not?

Regards

Langerwolfgang 21:03, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Any link that does not meet the external links guideline may be removed. Many of the external links to companies and personal sites are not helpful and should be removed. So many are added each day by companies and individuals trying to promote a website with which they are affiliated, that it is an enormous task to find and remove them all. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 22:47, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

CommuniGate Pro entry not SPAM

Hello, I believe the information I added to the commercial section of this page was identified as SPAM by you. I read the SPAM guide and do not belive I did anything to put my entry in this category. The link I provided was directly to the product technical documentation and not our commercial or sales website. If I link directly to only the XMPP technical section of the product documentation will that be acceptable?

http://www.communigate.com/communigatepro/XMPP.html

Other commercial products listed do link to commercial and not technical information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jabber_server_software#Commercial

Any suggestion is appreciated. Sincerely, Azdio Ballesteros Azdio 05:10, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, maybe the spam guideline isn't blunt enough. This is how the external links guideline puts it:

You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interests guidelines.

The suggestion is to put it in the talk page and let a neutral editor add it. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 22:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Mentoring

Solidcore was not G11. G11 says "Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic." (Emphasis added.) The Solidcore article may have been the product of a conflict of interest, but that in itself would not result in a G11 deletion. If it had said, "Solidcore is an exciting up-and-coming firm that makes the world's best solid cores..." etc., that would have been G11. As it was, G11 was inapplicable, but A7 was. The specific template is {{db-corp}}, the general template is {{db-a7}}, same difference. I'll take a look at the talkpage comments later. Cheers. - crz crztalk 12:45, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Amish Experience/Amish Country News external links

Hi, I'm a trifle confused as to why I received a message from you regarding the addition of a couple of external links to The Amish Experience and Amish Country News. Amish Country News is an important resource of Amish articles and information written by an anthropologist who has studied Amish culture and lived with an Amish family... it is also cited and linked elsewhere in other articles related to the Amish and Lancaster County, PA, and it provides a lot of very useful information for any visitors in the area. It is a free publication that is provided in every visitors' center statewide.

The Amish Experience is the only Amish center in all of Lancaster County to hold the 'Heritage Site' designation for accuracy and authenticity in its cultural interpretation, and the only Amish center in the entire state with Act 48 approval from the Department of Education... they actually teach seminars and continuing education classes for Pennsylvania educators for credit, unlike any other Amish 'tourism' destination.

The only external link under 'Pennsylvania Dutch Country' is the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau, which is a fee-for-membership private tourism promotion organization... that promotes its members only. The local Chamber of Commerce isn't linked, just the PDCVB, and the PDCVB is not an official government entity. If other tourism groups, organizations and such should not be linked, should the PDCVB?

Edited to add: My point with that last bit is that there are other organizations in this area also related to tourism. I understand not wanting individual businesses listed, but if one is going to include the PDCVB, other similar organizations of property and business owners should be included, as well (such as the Chamber of Commerce, hotelier's association, etc...) - Teapotfox 20:57, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

The Amish Experience site has an objectionable amount of advertising: the first screen with a prominent tour ad and "buy tickets" logo followed by large red "To purchase tickets by phone, please call ..."; another half page down a large-lettered "CLICK HERE" ad and so on. The site just seems just be promoting itself. There appears to be no such website as www.amishcountrynews.com. If it's the same as your other website, www.amishnews.com, that doesn't really measure up the external links guideline either. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 00:33, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Hey Mennonite

I'm a new user and i'm glad to see more mennonites around. increasingly i'm finding more and more of them nowadays.

sorry, i have a terrible sense of humor

Seriously, I appreciate your work with mennonite related articles. I'm taking an Anabaptist Heritage class at the mennonite high school i attend, EMHS, and these articles have meshed nicely with the coursework. MennoMan 00:51, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

By the way, you may be interested in working on the Selbstschutz article. I added a bit on Russian Mennonite groups but if you have any input, that would be great.MennoMan 00:53, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Also, if you're an alumnus of EMU, I think my mom, Ann Hershberger, may have taught you.

Replying on user's talk page. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 03:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

self service software

Jon my apologies for adding to your page - didn't know how else to contact you - anyway I added 2 reference articles to the topic self service software for you to check out - didn't know how to address the references note to validate it more. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Topiarydan (talk • contribs) 01:59, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Deleted my contribution - ENENSYS

Hi, i would like to know why you have deleted all my contribution about DVB and MPEG items Indeed, you say that my contribution may be like spamming, but ( on my way, of course ), external links that i've added, go directly to a whitepaper page who explain DVB Technology and how it works, so it's not as a commercial spamming link. Maybe i should linked directly to the PDF file ( but i didn't do that...)? can I do that or it will be considered like a spam too?

Thanks in advance to your answer

User:Dji14 15:53, 10 january 2007 (UTC)

It would be better to link directly to the PDF files. The page you linked to had promotional content and it wasn't immediately obvious how that page related to the article it was linked to. The pdf poster page has considerable Enensys promotional material in the center; I wouldn't find it that helpful to the MPEG-2 article. What is your relationship to or interest in Enensys? It is unusual for an editor's activity to revolve around only linking to a particular site. Perhaps you can use your knowledge and sources to expand these articles? ✤ JonHarder ^talk 22:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

A quick look at the French Wikipedia shows you have been adding the same kinds of links there and have been warned not to do so. At this point, the best avenue for you is to suggest the links on the talk page of an article and let neutral editors add them to the article if they so choose. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 22:46, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Help with adding article for deletion

Thinkh you can give me a hand with this?

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gigabits Lan Center —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Coinopkid (talk • contribs) 06:02, 12 January 2007 (UTC).

It looks like it has been speedy deleted. Otherwise, the three steps at WP:AFD are fairly straightforward if one follows them carefully. I'll try to have what you started cleaned up since it is no longer needed. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 00:24, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Image:Collage himachal.jpg

The image is a government based work and it is a logo for himachal pradesh. I was thinking to license it as a logo but it was meeting the GFDL criteria too. Thanks Sushant gupta 05:29, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

The image is definitely not a logo. What evidience can you provide that it is published with a GFDL license? I'm doubtful about that. Finally, with text advertising a 2006 event, it seems more promotional in nature than informative and not appropriate for placement in an article. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 14:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

WebAPP

Hi!

Why did you delete WebAPP? Aren't you sysops supposed to provide a warning/advices before taking such actions? This is a great shame, we have put lots of work into building the text in both wiki and web-app.net concerning webapp. If I knew anyone could just go like this and delete our work, I would never have started this WebAPP article.

"18 January 2007 Coredesat (Talk | contribs) deleted "WebAPP" (CSD G12, copyvio)"

What copyright violation? WebAPP is an open source and an open script and everything on that site is for being freely distributed. Have you read the license before jumping to conclusion and deleting the article? Several users put lots of work into writing this article.

Please return article.

Thank you For WebAPP On —Preceding unsigned comment added by Webapp (talk • contribs) 10:11, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Copyrights are taken quite seriously here on Wikipedia. See the copyrights policy. Since your article had text copied verbatim from a web page with no evidence of permission (the page asserts copyright with the wording All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners), and all revisions of the article contained substantially the same text, it was deleted to protect Wikipedia. The source page said nothing about a a free license with respect to the text; it asserted a copyright. Much of this is explained on the message I left on your talk page. You might want to read the conflict of interest note I left too; usually those too close to a topic have a hard time with editing on Wikipedia.

Since the text was substantially the same as the source web, I'm not convinced a lot of work was put into the article. Even <br>s were present that typically are never needed here and a sign of copy and paste; even the external links where duplicates of the source website.

To fans of my talk page: I do not have tools to delete an article, even if I wanted to and certainly can't view or restore those already deleted. Sigh. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 02:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Re: Image review request

Hi there! The only problem I see is that the authorization for those images are "oral". In other words, the copyright owners told you that it was fine, and you uploaded the images. But most times, people would want to certify that, indeed, they have released the images under that determined license. If you have e-mailed them to obtain permission, forward your request and replies from the copyright owners to permissions-commons at wikimedia dot org so that the Foundation can create a OTRS ticket which could be reviewed at anytime for others (of course, anyone wanting to certify the copyright owner had given indeed permission would have to ask someone with OTRS access to check for him). I don't think anyone would object the images for not having a OTRS ticket, but you should obtain it nevertheless for every image you have "gotten permission". Also, check Commons:Email templates to see an example of a clear permission that raises no doubt at the Foundation; a reply like "Yes, go ahead" is not enough (as an example, this is a reply that was not enough for the images that had been uploaded). Hope this clarifies the topic a bit. -- ReyBrujo 16:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Mind if I quote you?

With regard to an observation originally posted on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Spam:

"It's entirely plausible that an editor can plow blithely on, unaware of certain guidelines. Has anyone else noticed how spammers and other conflict of interest editors think the guidelines are for the other guy and what they are doing is "useful" and shouldn't be questioned? And they are completely sincere about that.

Perhaps we need a corollary to "Assume Good Faith" called "Assume No Clue" meaning that editors have no clue that they have gone astray of the guidelines until being warned (or demonstrate understanding by using guidelines against their competitors!)"

✤ JonHarder ^talk 03:27, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Would you mind if I quoted you (subsectioning "Assume no clue" with "Wonkish & Arbish" in an umbrella section) on my talk page? — Athænara ✉ 12:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Sure, go ahead. Feel free to correct spelling and punctuation problems. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 01:44, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Done. — Athænara ✉ 10:55, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Your edit to LAN gaming center

Hi Jon, I was just curious why you would delete a valid link to a directory of LAN centers? According to WP:EL its within guidelines to be added to the article and it sure isn't spam. I hope you atleast checked the link first to verify it wasn't spam. Thanks Coinopkid 18:44, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

iGames and other links have been repeatedly removed from the LAN gaming center because of overt spamming attempts. There is no need for multiple directory links and dmoz is prefered because it is an open directory. The iGames site has an objectionable amount of advertising and has been discussed on the talk page; the consensus has consistently been not to include it. It should be removed again. What is your affiliation or relationship to iGames? ✤ JonHarder ^talk 22:34, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

I have no relationship to iGames itself, I just go to alot of LAN centers. Anyway I made the external link in question point to the directory itself which I don't think has a objectionable amount of advertising. Coinopkid 05:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

OK. We disagree about the value and appropriateness of the link. Since this is a continuation of a discussion at talk:LAN gaming center, it would be helpful to pick up the discussion there, so other editors can help determine a consensus. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 00:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Your edit of numerous AutoChem links

Jon you removed the links to the large atmospheric database, this is actually a dis-service as many Wikipedia readers follow this link and are able to benefit from more than 10 years work compiling the database. You also removed all similar links which is rather unfortunate. This is not spam, it is in the spirit of Wikipedia, trying to make accurate data freely available for the common good. I would be most grateful if you would reverse the edits. The database has come out of many years of research at Cambridge University and NASA and has been recognized by 5 NASA awards. This is hardly spam! The link you removed is actually at a University site of a joint NASA centre funded by numerous NASA mission validation grants. talk

The external links guideline indicates one should not add links to a site one is affiliated with: You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interests guidelines. How is it not spam to promote your own project? ✤ JonHarder ^talk 02:00, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Many have requested access to this database and as it is directly relevant to make the data freely available the link was added. The database is of use as in general the datasets from different missions are all in different formats, so having a common format greatly facilitates the usefulness to other researchers. Your idea about the talk page is good thanks. Dlary 03:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

By the way, I liked your Mennonite articles. Dlary 03:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

External Links:

I must admit to being quite offended that you (or whoever) removed pretty much every link which I had added to wikipedia. In some cases, like the Book of Samuel, every single word from the Hebrew is listed along with the morphology of each and every word of each and every verse is a part of the work which I have done, something which could not fit within Wikipedia. There was commentary, and I checked through several of the places where my links were removed, and there were links to other commentaries which still remain; and link to a list of commentaries in almost every case.

In a completely different area, I compared pretty much every single feature of WordPerfect, Word, Star Office, and WordPro; feature by feature, in probably the most thorough examination of these products. At one time, when I maintained a web page many years ago, this article was cited in several other articles as being the most complete and thorough comparison of these products.

If you examined my website carefully, you will see that there is no asking for money whatsoever; and no means provided by which for anyone to send me money.

There are some of the commentaries which are done from a Christian perspective; on several articles, there were divisions between commentaries of Christian and Jewish commentaries, and I always placed the link where it was proper, within the correct category and at the bottom of the list.

I think that in two topics, Esther and the Ark of the Covenant, I had links to two articles, instead of just one. If that is a problem, I can refrain from doing that.

I would respectfully ask that these links be restored.

Scutfargus 17:52, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

There is a longstanding practice on Wikipedia of not linking to one's own website. Ignoring this guideline typically leads to a clash between a site owner, whose primary goal is to make their work available to as many people as possible, and the experienced editors, who are trying to build a neutral, reliable encyclopedia, leaving everyone involved unhappy. The external links guideline puts it this way:

You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it. This is in line with the conflict of interests guidelines.

If you can, the most helpful thing you can do for Wikipedia is to include as much of your information in the text of the article, remembering to cite your sources. Wikipedia needs the kind of quality content you are able to create more than it does more external links. If you think your links are valuable, so will other editors. Suggest their inclusion on the talk pages of respective articles and let other neutral editors add them if the resulting discussion leads to a consensus that they are appropriate. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 01:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Mr. Blobby

JonHarder, do you work for Wikipedia, it's just that I received a message from you regarding Mr. Blobby that I don't really understand well. Thanks.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.3.28.154 (talk • contribs) 13:27, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Someone using the same IP (network address), 82.3.28.154, has been making inappropriate edits. If you sign up for a Wikipedia account you can avoid seeing messages that do not pertain to your own activity. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 13:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Dates

Hi. If you're wondering where I'm getting the dates from, it's just from the equivalent entries in other language wikipedias. Deb 19:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Scoop (software)

If you feel an article needs references, and that article links to others on Wikipedia which verify the information presented, please consider building references based on that information, or flagging specific parts of the article with "citation needed" instead of leaving vague requests in the article to be sorted out by other editors. Also, please keep in mind that references and notability are different things, and that notability is not and never has been an official policy of the English-language Wikipedia. Ubernostrum 02:24, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

I would like to see it reference from multiple non-trivial published works whose source is independent of the software's author as inidicated in the notability guideline. I don't doubt that the subject is notable, and I think the article's contributors can come up with independent sources much more quickly than I can. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 02:46, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Catholic-hierarchy.org

Jon, could you comment on this: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#catholic-hierarchy.org. Thanks —Moondyne 03:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Zentri

I agree that the article should be deleted. I am, however, not sure why you placed the notice about it on my page. I did make the majority of the edits to the article but it has been almost a year since my last edit. --Murder1 04:29, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Because you were a major contributor to the article, I was letting you know about the prod as a courtesy, in the case you wanted to add your voice. ✤ JonHarder ^talk 15:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)