User talk:Shorebase

Welcome!

Hello, Shorebase, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! DWaterson 14:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Broads external link

Hi there. Sorry if the edit summary came across as a little curt; when going through a number of pages each day one's comments do tend to be brief :-) I hope this does not put you off contributing to Wikipedia altogether. Wikipedia gets thousands of links added each day, which are often merely promotional spam advertising, and are contrary to Wikipedia's policies: External links normally to be avoided and Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. In this case, I agree that your website is non-commercial and contains information relevant to the article; I think my main concern would be "Links normally to be avoided" point 1: Any site that does not provide a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a Featured article. Perhaps in this case some of your information is sufficiently definitive and of sufficient additional value to the article that it might be worthy of inclusion. I see you've already reverted my edit, so I'll leave it for the time being, and see if any other editors have objections to its inclusion. Cheers, DWaterson 14:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I quite understand the need to remove blatant commercial promotions, they're a real nuisance when not kept in check on other editable content sites. I added the link to Shorebase because it does contain unique material about the area, such as 24/7 realtime local weather readouts, an online local Tide Time calculator, (neither of which could be uploaded to Wiki as they require server side processing), and aerial photographs (taken by myself), which are not available elsewhere on the Internet. No offence taken, just feeling my way here... Shorebase 15:09, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spamming

Inserting links to your own website is generally considered spamming. Please do not do this. Leave it to others to add links if they think your site is good. Thanks, Guy (Help!) 22:11, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you had taken the trouble to read my discussion with D Waterson (above), you would have seen that this had already been discussed. I added my (non-commercial) site as it contains unique 'server-side active' local information that cannot be placed within Wikipedia itself,or I would have done so. I added it carefully to the end of the short list of existing similar links. I am stunned that a single, ordinary Wikipedia user like yourself can unilaterally decide what he or she thinks is valid content and remove another's input without the courtesy of informing them.Shorebase 12:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I read the discussion. You appear intent on adding links to your own site, it was your first action on registering, and you have not one main space edit which is not related to adding a link to your own site. Stop it. Your conversations on Talk are also entirely focused on adding your own site - we have a word for people whose sole purpose is liking their own site, and the word is spammer. If you don't want to be dismissed as a spammer, stop adding and arguing over links to your site. I did inform you via your talk page. And I am a single ordinary Wikipedia admin with many thousands of edits, whereas you are a single ordinary Wikipedia single purpose account. Your complaint is therefore baseless on every level, but thanks for asking. Guy (Help!) 12:41, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I'm really struggling to find the right words here, but as you are so incensed with my 'spamming', I've now deleted all of my other responses to user's questions on the NB discussions page, and won't bother trying to add any further to Wikipedia's knowledge base, thanks... " Wikipedia:Don't bite the newbies " Shorebase 11:48, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]