Talk:Ducati Monster

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[edit] The Monster is a naked Sports Bike, not a Naked Bike.

Some people seem to confuse Ducati's calling the Monster a naked bike. "Naked Bike" is not a class of bikes, it is a description of a style of Sports Bikes.

Touring Sports Racing etc

all refer to FUNCTION not the form. A Monster is naked in form, but its function is a sports bike.

best,

izaakb ~talk ~contribs 00:11, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DML

Izaak, the DML is not merely a "fan site" (I can't find anywhere in the policy pages stating that fan sites are not allowed to be posted), but a community of people (forum) in addition to an informative website with a lot more relevant information that is posted on this wikipedia page. Many other pages have similar links (see Yamaha_Motor_Company and Honda_CB450 for example). I'm sorry you aren't allowed to post there (the DML) any more, but I feel like you're gaming the system because of personal feelings towards the administrators on that site. I placed the link in a "related links" category in the links section. I believe that would be in the spirit of the wikipedia guidelines. Dragsterhund 20:06, 4 December 2007 (UTC)


Dragsterhund, links to forums such as enthusiast/fan sites are excluded under WP:EL and WP:FANSITE and specifically this guideline: LINKS TO BE AVOIDED Specifically #s four and eleven, to wit:

4 Links mainly intended to promote a website.
11 Links to social networking sites (such as MySpace), discussion forums/groups (such as Yahoo! Groups) or USENET.

ALL external links to enthusiast sites are to be posted in the OpenDirectory, not directly in the Wikipedia article. Since you only joined Wikipedia recently, and have only edited this page, I understand your confusion about the rules -- there are plenty of them.
If you have external sites which are enthusiast-related, regardless who they are, put them in dmoz. They do not belong in any article, despite other editors being lax or ignorant of WP:EL. If you have any further questions, I can certainly help.
Please do not accuse me of breaking Wikipedia rules until you are certain; and since you are inexperienced with Wikipedia, perhaps at this point you should be asking questions rather than making accusations. Please do not re-add the link, or any other link to any forum.
have a good day. izaakb ~talk ~contribs 20:51, 1 February 2008 (UTC)