User talk:Bamber Gascoigne

Welcome

Welcome!

Hello, Bamber Gascoigne, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 13:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your link to your website

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 please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thanks. -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 13:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bamber. Per your email - there are two relevant guidelines - WP:EL and WP:SPAM. If you do nothing but link to your own site (especially if are getting advertising revenue from it) you are going to trigger the spam radars. My main objection to people doing this is that it affects the objectivity (the peer review aspect) of Wikipedia. If something is worth linking then someone will have already done it. You ask, "Is there a case perhaps for more selective links to HistoryWorld (and therefore fewer in number) than my rather exhaustive approach this morning?". This is definitely a better approach, but still goes against the guidelines I mentioned. If you think there is a case for a selective link placement, you should propose the link on the article's talk page, and let someone else do it. See the links I provided for more info. hth -- zzuuzz ^(talk) 21:17, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Bamber, thanks for letting us know about timesearch.info, and thanks for respecting the guidelines about conflicts of interest. It seems to me to be a quite appropriate link, and I will add my support for it in due course. I will add the link myself if nobody beats me to it. You may be interested to know that this has also been mentioned on the Wikipedia mailing list (link). I have a small doubt about the website calling itself Wikipedia TimeSearch and Wikipedia timelines, but we'll see if any eyebrows are raised. Let me know if I can help further. -- zzuuzz^(talk) 13:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]