User talk:Wwoof

WWOOF participating farm providing guest and volunteer opportunities

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Hello, Wwoof! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Dillard421♂♂ (talk to me) 15:11, 6 May 2009 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Hello. I have looked at the guidelines on editing talk pages, as you suggested. These make it clear that it is perfectly OK to edit them for purposes of "Removing prohibited material". You may want to check out the guidelines on external links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ELNEVER#Restrictions_on_linking These make it clear that links to webpages that contain illegally republished copyright material are not permitted, and it says that there are no exceptions to this rule. My edit was therefore not "vandalism", as you characterised it; rather, it was following the rules that Wikipedia lays down, and I made that clear in my Edit Summary when I made the change, even providing the link to the relevant page, which I have now repeated above. As the Wikipedia page says, "Linking to a page that illegally distributes someone else's work sheds a bad light on Wikipedia and its editors." The Diggerman Cometh (talk) 16:36, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look. Since you're a beginner here, you still haven't recognized the different standards applicable to a main page and a talk page, apparently. Additionally, there's another open issue, which is that you make a false claim that the link I had put to http://abundancefarm.com/downloads/free-wwoof-volunteer-directory.html is to illegal material, which it is not. If you believe the material is illegal, you could go through the legal process for getting it removed from the internet. However, simply your claim in wikipedia comments that it is illegal does not make it so. Why are you so unwilling to have a conversation from a neutral point of view?

Wwoof (talk) 05:17, 8 May 2009 (UTC)