User talk:Npgallery

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Happy editing! -- Infrogmation 16:55, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Outside sources

If you use text from other sources like you did for Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, it would be very helpful if you could make a note similar to the one I wrote at Talk:Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site after you reverted my mistake. Rl 20:08, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Articles

Thanks for getting the article on Harpers Ferry National Historical Park started. Though I agree that cut and pasting text from official websites is fine, make sure you reference where you got the information fully and perhaps perform a few wikilinks too. Reading through this may help you get started. Thanks again.--MONGO 10:26, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

NPS Stubs

I noticed you have been making some stub articles for National Park sites. This is mini-project of mine, too. In case you are interested, I have eventually worked out a pretty good format for NPS stubs that you are welcome to use or adapt. A current example is Antietam National Battlefield.

It features the protected areas infobox and some standard categories. Tools for getting the pieces of information for the infobox are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected Areas. (Also, why not join the project yourself?)

Cheers!  Eoghanacht ^talk 16:14, 29 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

nationalparksgallery.com

I've noticed that you have been promoting this site through insertion in a large number of articles. I don't mean to take away from your work, but I'm concerned about partiality. Would you care to disclose your relationship to nationalparksgallery.com?

Jbetak 22:47, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just think it's a relevant site.

Well, that may be so. I think it would be far more helpful to incorporate most of the info contained there into Wikipedia. Especially since the site is loaded with online ads.

Jbetak 23:30, 2 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm not going to violate copyright by copying material from there to Wikipedia. The site isn't "loaded" with ads either, and it's a moot point anyway.

Certainly -- I'm not implying that you should, and I would be happy to explain how. I think that you have done some good work on Wikipedia and I hope that you'll continue doing so. However, from my experience creating 30 links to a site of commercial character on a single day will raise an eye brow or two. Especially when your user ID implies some sort of affiliation with the site in quesion. This is frawned upon and I can point you to several examples of similar situations if needed. Normally, this results in a whole-sale removal of the links in question.

Jbetak 01:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]