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[edit] Outlook Express

Regarding the Outlook Express article... Wikipedia isn't here for you to advertise your products or services. Please see our policies on Wikipedia:External links and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Thank you. -/- Warren 18:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Then why not remove InsideOutlookExpress for showing Google Advertising and earning money after clicking on wikipedia. Or Secunia offering their own services? If you want to apply a neutral policy then you need to left only the Microsoft related sites and I'll agree with you, in other case I'll continue my concern about your ambiguity on this decisions.

Please read the policies more carefully. Note that links that should be included are "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article. Ideally this content should be integrated into the Wikipedia article, then the link would remain as a reference, but in some cases this is not possible for copyright reasons or because the site has a level of detail which is inappropriate for the Wikipedia article."; InsideOutlookExpress covers this pretty well. It's run by a Microsoft MVP (ie. a pretty reliable source of accurate information), and the site itself is purely informational, and isn't trying to push a product. It's completely unreasonable to expect that every site Wikipedia links to contains no advertising... that's patently ridiculous and you know it.
As for Secunia, they are considered, first and foremost, to be a reliable source of information about the history of security of popular products. They do sell services, yes, but we are using them as an informational source in the same kind of "further reading" fashion that InsideOutlookExpress is.
One more thing. You identified on my talk page that "Outlook Express API" is something that is "yours". The external links policy doesn't generally people adding links to their own web sites to articles, as it can run afoul of our policy on Wikipedia:Neutral point of view. Thanks for your understanding.
If you'd like to help out Wikipedia by contributing some of your knowledge of Outlook Express to the article, that'd be greatly appreciated! -/- Warren 19:20, 26 September 2006 (UTC)


I'll add then a link to our article about Outlook Express API in codeproject.