User talk:Travellingbazaar

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. -- Infrogmation 00:42, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WP Munich

Hello,

You are invited to join WikiProject Munich!

There are a lot of things to do in this project. From creating new articles to finetuning articles into featured article status.

How can you help?

You can join a Task Force.
You can help comform Munich-related articles to Wikipedia Policy.
You can get free Munich-related images under GNU Free Documentation License.
You can create and edit of Munich-related articles.
You can do translations from German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia on Munich-related articles.
You can help do assessments of Munich-related articles.
You can help expand articles currently in the Stub-class and Start-class.
You can help reference articles.
Since original research is against Wikipedia policy, you can research topics to expand. This means you don't need to know anything about Munich.
You can help expand stubs and start-class articles and help finetune other articles into Featured article status.

A WikiProject of this nature is very broad. Munich has a rich history in sports, culture, politics along with many more topics. Feel free to help out in your area of interest.

If you want to check the project out you can click the link above. If you want to join the project, you can sign up here.

If you have any questions feel free to contact myself or any other member of the project.

Reply from Infrogmation

Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia. In reply to your question on my talk page, note the earlier message that Wikipedia should not be used as a link farm. Your participation to help us build a better free content encyclopedia is welcome; if you are here just to promote a particular website, that is considered spamming, and is not welcome. As all of your earlier edits seemed to be of the latter type, they were reverted. I presume the invitation to contribute to the Munich article is extended to all who have edited the article and thus may have an interest in the subject. Hope this helps, -- Infrogmation 17:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your reply, Infrogmation. I have been travelling and photographing for the last 15 years or so, during which time I have build up an exceptional amount of travel material, much of which is unique. Instead of having hundreds of slides sitting in shoe boxes, I wish to allow others to share in my experience. For this reason, I have and still am investing many hours in Travellingbazaar.com. If time and wife would allow, I would directly integrate my photo's into Wikipedia, however I and my wife are presently running at our limits :) Thus, yesterday's attempt at linking specific photo galleries with specific Wikipedia content... I simply cannot do both jobs.

Q. What feeling does a person currently get from the Wikipedia Junagadh page?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junagadh

or from the Bergamo page and it's link to the official Bergamo website (in Italian)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamo

Could these two examples not be improved with links to,

http://www.travellingbazaar.com/junagadh%201.html

http://www.travellingbazaar.com/bergamo%201.html

As I say, it's just an idea.

Thanks,

Travellingbazaar 19:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I saw your edits from the Bangkok article and thought I would drop in. As Lucasian said, the external links guideline, especially the Advertising and conflicts of interest subsection explains why it isn't a good idea to add links to websites you own, not least because a link should add substantially to an article what cannot be included in the article itself. You mentioned, though, that you would upload your photos to Wikipedia yourself, so you might be interested in releasing the photos on your website under a license, such as the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, and perhaps leave a note on article talk pages so other editors may go and upload your photos to include in the articles. Note though that by doing so you will be allowing people to use and edit your work, commercial purposes included. Paul_012 ^(talk) 12:22, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Paul 012. Thank you for your comments. I've posted another reply on Infrogmation's discussion page Infrogmation talk page.

Travellingbazaar 08:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]