Talk:Pen pal

message: Each holiday season I write to a prisoner I know and send cards with small gifts to some I don't.  Prisoners of course are limited to snail mail.  Use of a post ofice box is recommended.  There are many websites for obtaining addresses, found by searching Google for "prison" and "pen-pal" - usually free to the writer.  Now, does this belong in the article? Simesa 08:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Prison Pen-pals

message: I've removed all the external links, as they're all basically just advertising individual penpal sites (except perhaps the second one), and they don't really add any additional information to the article. Wikipedia is not a web directory, and this list could run to hundreds of sites easily.
* Language Tandem Intelligent search engine helps you to find your ideal penpal for language exchange (free service)
*All Info About Penpalling Your  guide to penpalling with lots of great info on how to make penpalling fun. 
* International Pen Friends USA Provides penpals aged from 8 to 80 from all around the world. A Special School Class Service is also available for Teachers.
* Penpal Park Good, well laid out site with free membership and live web-based instant messaging and message boards.
*Pen Pal Palace search for, find and meet international penpals, penfriends and make new penpal, epal and e-mail friends throughout the world with this free, quick and easy method.
*Language Exchange Penpal Language exchange with Pen Friends worldwide.
*BEPenfriends site which is dedicated to forging pen pal friendships and relationships
*Esperantomondo multilingual site that facilitates correspondence in Esperanto with more than 900 users from 57 different countries
* InterPals Penpal Net one of the largest and most popular online pen pal sites (free)Pen pal are fun to have I would LOVE to be yuors
* Just Write ... "Where Letter Writers Meet." Subscribe to the print magazine. 
* Pen Pal World a free, online pen pal site
*Pen Pal International a large, free, online pen pal site
* friend SHACK new, secure and always free, online pen pal / friendship finding site
* The Letter Exchange Snail mail magazine and forwarding service established in 1982.
* Write-A-Prisoner in the U.S.
* Letternet Pen pal organization sponsored by Deutsche Post, the German postal service.
* Friends4Lifers.com A free website finding penfriends for prisoners all over the world.
— sjorford (talk) 11:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Hi. I recently founded a wiki on Wikia called Pen Pal Wiki. I think a link from this article to Pen Pal Wiki is a good idea, although at the same time it could be counted as just more spam. So I'll leave it someone else to add a link to Pen Pal Wiki if they see fit. Markdarb 00:16, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pen Pal Wiki 

message: I'd be interested in knowing why there are numerous "acceptable" links to commerical web sites on this page.  For example:
* organizations: "Global Penfriends is an example of a Partial subscription service where people can register their profiles for free and also choose to upgrade their account." -- how more blatantly commerical can a citation be?
* organizations: "Another is International Pen Friends, established in 1967, which serves people of all ages."  That's an Austrialian based commercial website.
* external links:  "penpalsnow.com" -- a clearly commercial website...just one of many in the list
So here's my question:  What is the standard being used to edit content on this page? Usdave 17:43, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed these links.  We have standards such as Wikipedia:External links.  But people come into articles which nobody is paying attention to and leave spam links, which may sit there for a long time if no one removes them.  --Xyzzyplugh 16:12, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian / Commercial Bias 

message: What is the history of the PP movement? I assume it's a 20th century phenomenon? Drutt (talk) 21:52, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: History