Kkolmetz

Why I deleted the external links you added to 4 articles

Mr. Kolmetz, the major problem with the "External links" that you added to four Wikipedia articles is that you did not take the time to learn how to use Wikipedia and become familiar with the various Wikipedia policies regarding the editing of articles. I would like to point out that the History section of each of the following articles shows that all of the "External links" you added were links to your own website, namely www.kolmetz.com. The four articles were: "Cooling tower", "Distillation", "Industrial water treatment" and "Vacuum distillation".

Wikipedia has a policy against adding "External links" that point to one's own website. When an anonymous user like yourself, enters Wikipedia for a few hours and adds "External links" to four articles all pointing to his/her own website, and then leaves Wikipedia ... it is assumed that his/her only motivation was to advertise his/her website, and that is called "spam". I am sorry that seems to have offended you, as you made clear in your three phone calls and in our subsequent phone conversation, but that doesn't change the facts of what you did. In fact, you did it two days in a row.

If you will note, I did not delete the written text that you added to the "Vacuum distillation" article, because I thought it was quite useful and appropriate.

Most technical subject articles in Wikipedia have an "External links"section and a "References" section. And there is very specific way of creating a proper Reference, of which you seem to be aware. As I told you on the phone, if you will send me the following information about the published articles involved, I will make proper References about them for you and install them in the pertinent article:

• Exact title of the published paper
• First and last name of all authors
• Name of the journal in which the article was published
• Exact date the of the pertinent issue of the journal (day, month, year, volume number if applicable)

• If the article was presented at a conference (rather than being published on a journal), then I need:

• Exact title of the presented paper
• First and last name of all authors
• Name of the conference
• What city , state/province) and country where the conference was held
• Exact date of the conference (day, month, year)

I want to stress that I am willing to do this for you this one time. In the future, you should take the time to learn how to do it yourself. - mbeychok 20:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello Sir

Thanks I will go learn Wikipedia rules and repost my comments from the published Hydrocarbon Processing and Oil and Gas Journal Articles. I would think that content from Hydrocarbon Processing and Oil and Gas Journal would improve the level of distillation content in Wikipedia.

As a source of knowledge as Wikipedia is trying to be, I would think that improved content should supersede all other concerns. The more difficult you make for people to post, the modern distillation principles will not be added, like CFD Modeling than was in my vacuum tower article.

I decided to go look for wikipedia rules and principles. I googled "Wikipedia rules" and fould the anwered to be very interesting.

Thanks Karl Kolmetz —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kkolmetz (talk • contribs) 00:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mbeychok"

Karl, your comments about how hard it is to post correctly are exactly the same as mine were about two years ago! But that doesn't help ... as I found out. You just have to buckle down and learn how to edit in Wikipedia.

Google is not the place to look for Wikipedia editing guidance. Instead, just scroll down the left hand side of Wikipedia Main Page (or any other page) until you see the word "Help". Click on that and you will find all of the Wikipedia editing guidance, tutorials and policies. Be prepared to spend at least a week or two studying them. Also, studying the "Edit" pages of other articles will be most helpful.

You should also read the box at the top of this page to learn how to use this Talk page. It is very helpful if you simply sign your name with four "tildes" like this ==> ~~~~. Simply signing with those will automatically add your signature, the time and the date. Regards and welcome to Wikipedia. mbeychok 02:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi,

I have my own very successful website, that I program myself - as an engneer I was taught fortran and basic. I have spent well over 8 hours trying to improve the distillation pages and it all got deleted - I doubt I will try again in the near future to help.

Thanks Karl Kolmetz