Paulzm1a

April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles, as you did to Audio mastering. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Mr Paul Abbott or "Zen Mastering", please find other ways to promote your website. Jrod2 (talk) 05:19, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Audiophile do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Jrod2 (talk) 05:37, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added to the page Sound recording and reproduction do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Jrod2 (talk) 05:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Many engineer who are editors come to WP to contribute on a regular basis. The temptation to add personal external links sometimes is great, but futile. We all understand where you are coming from and not hold it against you. That said, you can't tell me that the http://audiorecordingadvice.com/ is not owned by you as well as ZenMastering.com. If you deny it, I won't correspond with you again. Believe me , those users who have some degree of experience in WP know what I am talking about. Again, I don't hold it against you. It's not personal, I am only upholding our rules. Now, your argument for inclusion which is weak at best, may have some valid points, but here are the distinctions: Izotope was decided by a several users to be a helpful software for mastering, or at least one that helps to illustrate the many different type of processes that a mastering engineer may have to apply when mastering. I don't really care if you delete it because you are insulted that I deleted your links. Someone else will come back to rv. Now, Bob Katz was the one mastering engineer that many users agreed is an authority in the field of mastering and as such, many citations are depending on his links for our audio mastering page. I don't think he is more of an authority than my boss, but it's what all other users agreed, and since he is got a book out, he is the standard in which other ME's are measured against. Even if you could reach a more successful career than Bob, you can't place your own links on articles at WP. Have a nice day, Paul. Jrod2 (talk) 22:01, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Mr. Paul abbott, I respect your knowledge and I do believe that you are a legitimate mastering engineer. Having said that, I don't think you meet WP:Note and there is also the problem with WP:COI which I strongly suggest you read in order to gain a perspective on how things work around here. The only reason your links lasted for little over 24 hours, is because the other editors doing the rounds were not online that weekend. Trust me, they would have done exactly the same thing I did. And, even though I think you don't have a chance to succeed, maybe you should create an WP:RfC on the audio mastering talk page, where you can make an argument as to why your content is indeed desired or needed at the article page. If you can raise a consensus to include, then you may well post them again. As you said, be bold, but within guidelines. Best .Jrod2 (talk) 02:13, 9 April 2008 (UTC)