User talk:65.115.126.182

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in ELearning 2.0. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links as long as the content abides by our policies and guidelines. 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 if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here: link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me. --AbsolutDan (talk) 23:40, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


Hi Tony,

Are you User:Akarrer? If so please remember to sign in before editing. As you are now editing from your IP address (signed out), it doesn't appear that you and Akarrer are the same person.

>>> Whoops, yeah that's me.

Regarding the links I removed, I can indeed see that those links were included in the original writeup of the article: [1]. However, the article has since undergone a major re-write: [2], and the editor who did this seemed to only use the current 2 listed sources for the write-up. As such, any other links should go in a section titled "External links", (unless, of course, further cited information is added to the article) as the references section is intended only for sources used for the article in its current form.

There's one more catch though: blogs and personal websites aren't generally considered reliable sources according to Wikipedia standards. See WP:RS for more information on what is considered a reliable source.

On the other hand, I can see from your profile on the blog that you appear to have significant experience in the field. Has any of your writing on this subject been published, by chance? If so, that sort of information might be a great source for the article. I'd be happy to help you write up proper citations for it, just let me know. Alternately, you can mention your sources on the talk page of the article and allow other editors to discuss it or include it.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. --AbsolutDan (talk) 01:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Dan - thanks for the reply.

So the standard is like my old academic days - publications. What do you do with presentations? (I'll be doing 3 presentations on eLearning 2.0 in the next two months.)

I should have one article finally published on eLearning 2.0 in a few months, so that will make it easier. Of course, the best stuff will still be on my blog.

BTW, are things like:

http://www.astd.org/astd/Publications/Newsletters/elearn_news/2006/May/karrer.htm

considered publications?

By the way - based on the standard you cited, there are several other links that should be taken down in the article. Do you want to remove those as well even though it will hurt the quality of the article? If not, then I should add in my Learning Trends link relative to the trends cited at the start of the article.

Tony