User talk:67.130.239.5

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[edit] Response to comments from User:67.130.239.5 at User talk:Pollinator

So... did you even look at the link I placed on the light pollution page and decide it was irrelevant... or did you just remove it because I posted it there? The link I posted is VERY relevant to light pollution and is a recognized source of light pollution information. It ranks highly by Google, MSN & Yahoo... and is linked to by The International Dark Sky Association. Just because I am a commercial entity does NOT reduce the value of my posts.

As for commercial links... checkout the astronomy page... there are links to a number of commercial / for profit entities. Bad astronomy, space.com, astronomy magazine, sky & telescope, Meade Telescopes, Vega Bray (for profit B&B), Celestron, Televue, . Other big names (with links and even logos) IBM, Microsoft, Ford, General Electric, Harley Davidson. So... if you have a no commercial entities rule... enforce it for everybody. If not... give me a break and leave me alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.130.239.5 (talk • contribs)

Part of my Wikipedia admisistrator activity is vandal and spam patrol; it is nothing personal against you. Actually your site is a very nice one. But Wikipedia has a rule against adding links to your personal site(s). Using my own judgement, I have stretched that, at times, when a site is very informative AND provides that information free of charge. However, when there is advertizing on the site, the site owner is actually using Wikipedia for free advertising. In my book, the combination of a personal link plus commercial advertizing - is an automatic disqualifier. I will continue to remove such links as I find them. If there are such links on other pages, they simply haven't been noticed, so I thank you for calling attention to them. Pollinator 19:03, 25 March 2006 (UTC)