User talk:(WT-en) Mici

Hello Mici! Welcome to Wikivoyage.

To help get you started contributing, we've created a tips for new contributors page, full of helpful links about policies and guidelines and style, as well as some important information on copyleft and basic stuff like how to edit a page. If you need help, check out Project:Help, or post a message in the travellers' pub. (WT-en) JimDeLaHunt 04:11, 1 July 2008 (EDT)

Lodingo advertising
I see that many of your contributions to date have been to add links to Lodingo.com's tour guide products. Do you work for Lodingo? While I'm sure they are marvelous creations, you have to be very careful about how you mention them in Wikivoyage. Wikivoyage's purpose is to be a free (as in speech) guide for travellers. It is not intended to be a vehicle to advertise to travellers. It is not a link directory for travellers. According to the Project:External links policy, we want to include free content in Wikivoyage rather than link to it on other sites. According to Project:Don't tout policy, we avoid sales pitches. If you do work for Lodingo, I encourage you to read Project:Welcome, tourism professionals to get better oriented. In the meantime, I'm deleting all references to Lodingo products from all pages where I find them. If you have questions about what's appropriate, you can post a comment here which I'll respond to, or you can ask at Project:Travelers' pub. (WT-en) JimDeLaHunt 04:11, 1 July 2008 (EDT)

Jim I appreciate your comments, however I do not work for that website, your assumptions are not founded. I have used their fantastic free guides in my travels and thought I would post them as a thank you for the service while I spent time on Wikivoyage to learn the editing ropes. I do not appreciate you deleting my work and I would like you to restore them or go and delete all other companies thoughout Wikivoyage that provide such excellent free advice and guidance for travelers. Mici 11 July 2008


 * Mici, welcome to Wikivoyage, and I hope you find your time here rewarding to yourself and your fellow travellers. My apologies for my incorrect guess about why you are interested in Lodingo. As you learn the ropes, I encourage you to include the Project:External links and Project:Don't tout policies in your studies.  If you'd like second opinions, on my work or on your own, please stop by the Project:Travellers' pub and post a question. (And by the way, if you type four tildes ~ in a talk page, it fills in your user name and a date stamp — very handy.) Again, welcome! (WT-en) JimDeLaHunt 01:15, 11 July 2008 (EDT)