User talk:Insidehookah

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Hookah. Wikipedia is not a mere directory 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 exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Mwanner | Talk 02:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Inside Hookah

You wrote: "I received your message on my talk page, but I'm somewhat confused as to what is your opposition to Inside Hookah being listed on the Hookah page. Inside Hookah is not affiliated with any product or company, we have articles pertaining to information on Hookahs that you don't find on the Hookah page. We dont sell anything on the site, and the only advertising revenue we get is supposed to help fund the project and pay for writers to product quality material on a monthly basis. In the december issue we did a piece on Hookah's in Veinna Austira. Its not a commercially driven article and it covers a topic that is not on the Hookah page. After two weeks on the Hookah talk page, not one editor has commented on the inclusion.

Please be more specific on what your conerns are. There is a link on the page for a Hookah-Bar directory, no one has removed. While that is a valuable resource for hookah smokers, I feel that Inside Hookah is a valuable resource as well. I ask you kindly to please be more specific on what your opposition to it is. The external link quide and spam policies refrences that you provide are in the end enforeced by interpretation, please help me understand yours."

If I Google "Hookah", I get 2,630,000 hits. So far as I can see, Inside Hookah is not on the first ten pages of results. Wikipedia's External links guidelines are clear: external links should be kept to a minimum. They are quite explicitly not to be used to promote a site, which is clearly your intention, since you have evinced no interest in improving the contents of our article. Your message on the Talk page has drawn no response, presumably because no one has seen sufficient value in a link to your site. I'm sorry, but there is a complete lack of correspondance between your aims and Wikipedia's.

Thank you for your polite adherence to our procedures-- it is a refreshing change from the behavior of many in your situation. It is quite possible that your endeavor will attain a prominence that will cause an editor of the article to add your link at some point in the future. I know-- that is a frustrating answer-- how can you attain that prominence etc., etc. And yet, imagine what our pages would look like if we didn't guard them vigilantly against those who wish to use us to increase their traffic.

Cheers! -- Mwanner | Talk 19:46, 22 December 2006 (UTC)