Please stop inserting linkspam to Wikipedia. This is not an advertising medium for ANSI.
Thanks for the pointer. It was unintentional. Since you removed the link in question, this issue is resolved. But to clarify the intention, many standards are not available for free, when referred to in Wikipedia, a link to the actual standard, so people can read the abstract and get a description of the subject matter would necessarialy lead to the ANSI online store. The link would would point to a page containing a detailed description of the document and should serve the reader. It is not our intention to spam Wikipedia.--Ansiansiansi (talk) 14:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
I see (above) my colleague responded to your advice. But since I made the edit, I'd like to point out that I came across the article in the course of researching "open standards". I happened to find an obsolete link to the standard in question and took the opportunity to update it so that people would not be misdirected. I meant to improve the quality of the article. By my definition, I'd consider all external links on Wikipedia to be advertising.
I know that it's pointless to offer my opinion that pointing a person to a document is not link spam. So if you insist your way is better and you'd rather have no link, as opposed to a relevant link with proper anchor text that's fine. People will just highlight the text and search it on Google anyway. I didn't mean to violate the terms of service or link spam guidelines. --Ansiansiansi (talk) 13:33, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
Additions of http://.ansi.org edit
Please stop adding advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --Hu12 (talk)