User talk:PackagingMyself

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Hello, I'm Beetstra. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you.

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Please stop promoting these websites. Blogspots do not count as reliable sources, and certainly not more than other sources. It did come to my attention that, despite having completely different subjects, the two websites are closely related. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 17:12, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

From Packaging Myself: I am sorry that you felt my edits were promoting something. I was adding legit info about the museum's recent reopening, and I did cite my own blog posting as a source. Perhaps I should have linked directly to the museum's own pages?

I do not know why my site prices.com shows up. I have not knowingly added any link to that site.

I support the Wikipedia mission whole heartedly, but I did not realize that you consider blog postings as something other than a reliable source. Thanks for your alert.PackagingMyself (talk) 18:25, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Blogs are very limited as a reliable source (though sometimes fine), but here there was already another references so ...

Regarding promotional, I was talking about the links to theprices.com from your earlier edits: diff.

Please have a look through the policies and guidelines I linked above, they'll give some guidance I hope. Thanks! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 19:44, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

I think I see what you mean. I had forgotten about editing the article on outlining. The link does go to my site. But the text there is a reproduction of content from my book, Outlining Goes Electronic: A Study of the Impact of Media on our Understanding of the Role of Outlining in Virtual and Collaborative Conversations. ATTW Series, Ablex., 1999. At the time, I did not realize that you needed a link to the original scholarly book, not a web page containing the same content.

I appreciate the work you are doing to keep Wikipedia reliable, and I apologize for violating standards that I now understand much better, thanks to your notice.PackagingMyself (talk) 21:51, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

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