Aprillougheed
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Retail links on Irrigation Page - yet you kicked off our FAQs off Drip Irrigation
editYou wrote: "Twice you've refused to list drip-irrigation-guide.com under topic Drip Irrigation. However, you allow a completely commercial site under topic Irrigation.
Under Irrigation - Under External Links - this is listed:
Why would you allow a commerical/retail site and not a site that only provides information?
This is very confusing and I do not understand why irrigationdirect.com is more helpful information than drip-irrigation-guide.com.
Could you please explain this to me?
Thanks, April Lougheed"
- That's easy-- I didn't have irrigation on my watchlist. It is now, and I have pulled the offending link. You see, the process by which an editor ends up watching particular articles can be somewhat haphazard. Most of us are set up so that any article we edit automatically gets added to our watchlist. I generally look at all external links that get added to my watchlist-- if someone spams multiple articles, I'll follow the chain, removing spam as I encounter it, and indirectly adding new articles to my watchlist. That's how one can end up watching one article but completely missing a change to a closely related one. Hope that makes sense?
How to respond to Mwanner
editI'm a newbie here - and I'm trying to respond to Mwanner about posting information under Drip Irrigation. Should I just post another discussion on my talk page or is there a place to reply to your comments to my post titled Retail links on Irrigation Page - yet you kicked off our FAQs off Drip Irrigation
We would definitely like to add content to Wikipedia as we see lots of opportunity to provide information on drip dispersal methods for irrigation and wastewater treatment. Indeed we didn't even find a definition for drip dispersal. Guess we'll have to study the rules a bit more. Please bear with us. Thanks so much for your time and help. Aprillougheed 01:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
- You can respond either on your own page or on that of the person you're talking to-- it's an awkward communication method, but either way seems to work out. Anyway, I'm glad you want to help. I'm going to paste in the standard welcome--
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