User talk:DavidMaisel

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Balance board

Regarding your post in my talk page: Wikipedia requires that a lead section be created above the table of contents; this is a fundamental formatting standard (see WP:LEAD). I'm not terribly familiar with the subject matter, so I simply restored an intro paragraph that had been blanked earlier. I would suggest rewriting the intro paragraph rather than outright deleting it. The idea is that a lead paragraph allows the reader to quickly grasp the subject matter without having to read the body of the article. To clarify, my concern is whether an intro is placed at the top of the article at all. Please contact me again. Just64helpin (talk) 19:14, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Images usually need captions to establish context; otherwise the reader will not understand why the image is there. Please refrain from squeezing text between images on either side, as this causes formatting problems on some browsers. Please also note that Wikipedia is not a guide. By the way, I noticed some of the external links contains "davidmaisel" in the URL. Are you associated with these documents, DavidMaisel? just64helpin (talk) 19:42, 22 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

CfD nomination of Category:Training bicycle (for children, instead of training wheels)

I have nominated Category:Training bicycle (for children, instead of training wheels) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at the discussion page. Thank you. Bencherlite ^Talk 11:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

June 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added 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.

See also WP:COI in case it might apply. --Ronz (talk) 16:02, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. --Ronz (talk) 01:08, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

You clearly have a conflict of interest with at least some of the material you've been adding to Balance board, and you appear to have edited as 24.60.173.27 (talk · contribs) for some of this editing. --Ronz (talk) 01:19, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Looking closer, there's much more to it. I've started a discussion here got get others involved in examining the situation. Please consider contributing to the discussion. --Ronz (talk) 01:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Reply from DavidMaisel to Ronz (talk) posting of 01:19, 20 June 2011 (UTC): It's clear that your intention is to uphold Wikipedia's integrity and credibility. I don't want to discourage you from trying to serve that important purpose, but your worry that there is a conflict of interest in my contribution (a few days ago and earlier) of external links in Wikipedia's "Balance board" article may be dispelled by inspecting the webpages that I linked to. I think their content will show that the interest that guided me to create two of those webpages and to cite the others is the same general interest that guides Wikipedia: making useful and interesting information and pictures available to the public. I haven't used my balance-board webpages for private gain. I haven't received or sought money, gifts, favors or employment from any manufacturer or seller of balance boards. There is no advertising at my balance-board webpages. I haven't charged any of the people that I've trained to use a balance board. I haven't tried to market my knowledge of balance boards in any way. Was I attempting, via those external links, to drum up business for balance-board manufacturers, wrist-guard manufacturers, the publisher of Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office? Absolutely and blatantly, Yes. In order to comply strictly with Wikipedia's policy and to prevent giving the appearance of a possible conflict of interest, I should have asked someone else to contribute the links to my own two webpages. If it is now not too late, may I ask you to do that contributing? Your polite consideration of this request will be appreciated.DavidMaisel (talk) 20:54, 21 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. It would be best to copy it to the WP:COIN discussion to centralize the discussion and get the attention of editors more experienced with such matters. --Ronz (talk) 00:19, 22 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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