User talk:84.9.191.79

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Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. 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. --Abu Badali 15:20, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hello Paul Myers or his PR agent!

Thanks for your work on the Paul Myers (record producer) article, but I've decided to revert to the trimmed down version. If you'd like to discuss what's neutral and objective, we can do that on the Talk page. As it stands, many of your contributions seem to be about promoting Paul Myers, his books, and his companies -- which isn't what Wikipedia is about. A biography should have links to his consultancy, trivia about when he happened to do a radio show, or non neutral point of view stuff such as how Paul Myers has a "proven and highly successful track record within both the music and Internet industries". Whether he does or not is outside the scope of a biography, as are nominations to industry awards he didn't get (let's face it, anyone can get an industry award these days as there's so many of them, so it doesn't really impress anyone). Constantly adding this sort of stuff to the Paul Myers article makes it look ludicrously over the top; I'm sure Paul is a lovely and successful fellow but he isn't Mother Theresa and doesn't need a hagiography.

Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 17:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wkipedia is not about promotion (or self-promotion)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Paul Myers (record producer). 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 attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policy for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Neale Monks 18:24, 20 March 2007 (UTC)


DR says: No benefit for me to add links except to make this page informative. You edited out all the useful info and left a page of two sentences containing three errors and nothing at all informative. So I reverted it.

Who's DR? Anyway, I made the technical corrections. The spirit of Wikipedia rests in about improving articles using information that is notable, neutral and verifiable. Anything like "he created a revolutionary idea that would change the face of the Internet" or that he has "a proven and highly successful track record within both the music and Internet industries" is clearly NOT neutral and impossible to verify. Leave such things out. Similarly, that "Myers is currently nominated for a Netimperative Lifetime Achievement Award" is questionable in terms of notability; it may mean something in whatever country/industry Netimperative is all about, but does it matter to anyone else? Did he even get the award? If not, it matters even less, surely. Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 19:25, 20 March 2007 (UTC)