User talk:ExecBiz

Hello, ExecBiz! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! guyzero | talk 17:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Adding External Links

Hello! The interviews that you have recently linked require site registration in order to read them. Please take a look at the Wikipedia guideline for adding external links to webpages. Links that require site registration are to be avoided unless the the website is the subject of the article. Apologies if this is not your intent, but since you are linking to a website that is the same as your username, I must also advise you to please do not use Wikipedia for self-promotional purposes. regards and thank you, --guyzero | talk 17:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I am not trying to promote myself, I am trying to allow people to read his interview. How do I post this interview then? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ExecBiz (talk • contribs)

The issues with cut and pasting an interview into an article page is that it adds a ton of weight to the page (imagine if interviews with Bill Gates were pasted into his article -- it would be unreadable), and that it represents a potential copyright violation. We want articles about people to be an accurate description of that person, not a collection of all information related to the person.

You may be able to use your interviews as a source for a fact that you add to the article. Try looking at articles for business-people and see how facts and information are cited and sourced by magazine articles, interviews, etc. If you add a piece of information and cite it with your article, it may still be removed due to the registration requirements of your website. Generally, it should be easy for the reader to be able to verify a fact by looking at the source of that fact without having to jump through a hoop (i.e. giving out their e-mail address.)

Perhaps start by looking at how articles are constructed and sourced within Wikipedia and click through some of the links in the welcome message, above, to see the general policies and guidelines of how to add good information to articles. I know its a lot to digest! regards, --guyzero | talk 18:19, 19 December 2007 (UTC)