Talk:Fishkeeping

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Neale Monks 11:49, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notice to advertisers 

message: The collection of external links is growing. That's fine if the links are to places that expand the detail contained in this topic, but some of these links aren't doing that. Wikipedia is not a collection of links. Those can go on Yahoo. See especially What Wikipedia is not and Wikipedia:External links On the latter page, take a look at Links to normally avoid, specifically:
- Links that are added to promote a site. See External link spamming.
- Sites that primarily exist to sell products or services.
- Sites with objectionable amounts of advertising
I've certainly added one or two links that would fall under these categories, and am considering removing them. For example, the fishkeeping magazines are debateable. While PFK does have a lot of freely accessible information, as well as news articles, the TFH site has very little, and is essentially advertising from top to bottom. Certainly the link for TFH should go.
Fish clubs (we have two in the US listed already) are another debateable point. I looked these over, and neither has any compelling information that stands out as a unique resource for fishkeepers. If we're to have clubs at all, I'd argue they should be ones providing unique information on specific types of fish, for example the Australia New Guinea Fishes Association or the British Livebearer Association.
We've had problems in the past with people posting links to commercial sites, shops basically, and so the more we focus the links on non-commercial, information sites, the easier it is to justify treating those commercial links we don't like as spam.
Unless I hear compelling arguments to the contrary, I propose to prune back the links significantly, leaving only ones with unique content and little or no advertising. Comments?
Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 08:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree.  You're one step ahead of me, Neale.   I'd been contemplating the very same pruning action myself...I just hadn't mustered up the courage to do it yet, though I recently did the same on the Corydoras page.   Hack away. Neil916 14:46, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I've removed all the links. Difficult to find useful criteria for which ones to keep versus which ones to bin. Any ideas? Neale Monks 21:54, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is not a collection of links - Discuss 

message: What I've done is removed the media ones. All these do is attract other magazines, which is fine, but then we'd end up with dozens most of which are only sold within one nation. So, even though I write for a couple of them and want them to do well, I've deleted them. Likewise, no sites primarily designed as trading web sites.
Now, the remaining links I think should be general ones covering the trade from various perspectives (pro/con) and links to encyclopaedic sites with information on specific topics not covered on Wikipedia. So forums and the like are out.
Is this too arbritary? Any thoughts?
Neale Neale Monks 10:17, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not at all arbitrary and perfectly justified following WP:EL. Femto 13:40, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: I had an edit in the conservation section. The FAO doc stated that most freshwater ornamentals are captive-bred. THis report  claims that the opposite is true for marine ornamentals. Matthias5 23:02, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice reference. Thanks for adding it. Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 14:55, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  wild-caught versus captive-bred 

message: I've been slammed for adding links into Wikipedia, so I'll just add a comment here instead. I've got a little website called keepingfish.com. It's got a collection of articles related to aquarists, dictionary of terminology and a large database of plants and fish. It's ad free, and an appropriate link for this page.
But then again, I've got a vested interest in the site, so I'll let the page editors decide whether to add the link in or not. Feel free to contact myself or Speermeister with the response. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.167.93.191 (talk) 15:50, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link possibility? 

message: Swordtail Breeding should be merged into fishkeeping since Swordtail Breeding addresses breeding of the live-bearing aquarium fish, which can be covered in fishkeeping sufficiently. Suntag (talk) 01:23, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

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