User talk:George1975

Links

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. Thank you. [1] --Ronz (talk) 19:57, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

My perspective on the links

I'm glad to see you still working on the article. I hope you're not offended that I went ahead and removed the link. I'm writing this to explain myself in a bit more detail.

I appreciate the efforts you've gone to in discussing the links. However, I think we're at an impasse. I've given you some options on getting others' opinions, and can give more if you like. From my perspective, the personal remarks you've been making more and more indicate you're not interested. In that case, I think it's best to follow WP:EL and WP:NOTLINK fairly strictly with such links, given that it is the type of topic that attracts the spamming of software tools. I am being lenient with links to sites that provide information that could be used to expand and verify information in the article. As the article improves, there will be less and less need for any of the links currently there. --Ronz (talk) 02:51, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

I am definitely not offended, maybe only a little bit disturbed in the beginning. I didn't have enough time -yet- to investigate further the issue of external links, but I will do so soon, because I feel there is something not right/fair about it.George1975 (talk) 00:37, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

George, if you have subject matter expertise, I welcome you to return to Information extraction. The way forward here is to put more effort into adding references and citations. These others issues will fall by the wayside if the article takes on a more authoritative tone. I'm made a poor beginning of taking the article in this direction, as I'm limited by not knowing the IE literature. It's more productive to buff up on template:cite than burrowing into tedious policy about external links. I've also responded on the talk page. You need to think of Wikipedia like a big city with 20 million strangers. If they don't stand on policy to some degree, the forces of order are soon overwhelmed. The problem with adding external links lacking clear justification is that one bad link attracts another, and soon your nice article turns into a link farm. As a rule of thumb, any addition which attests to the subject's importance (with proper support) is least likely to succumb to tiresome policy. — MaxEnt 11:10, 27 March 2010 (UTC)