User talk:Gigpig

Hi Gigpig. Welcome to Wikipedia. I see you have added a link to mapad.terrapages.com from a number of Australian towns and cities. Unfortunately these links look rather like advertising that website rather than contributing to the article, and they are in danger of being removed. Please consider whether your intent is to help Wikipedia or to help Terrapages before continuing, and only add more links if you intend to help Wikipedia. Thankyou. --Scott Davis ^Talk 14:17, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

(copied from User talk:ScottDavis) Thanks scott for that feedback...

I was wondering though, If adding those pages was advertising, then why is where is, google, and multimap in wikipedia. and some pages that I added the site to had no maps at all, which would have added to wikipedia.

anyway Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gigpig (talk • contribs) 08:48, 9 April 2006

I would say the difference is the relative value to a reader of Wikipedia. The map sites we link to generally have more features (pan as well as zoom) and wider coverage than just a few towns. Most of these sites are actually all linked from a few templates keyed from the geographic coordinates. Click on the coordinates of any article with coordinates and you get taken to a (currently external but proposed to move to Wikipedia eventually) page with links to lots of map sites. I would see the threshold for adding another mapping site to that page as lower than adding it to a bunch of individual articles, as users can learn which ones they like. As Ambi has now reverted most of your edits, I'll go through and make sure all of them have coordinates. --Scott Davis ^Talk 09:25, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]