User talk:Ericwan

Apologies for Putting links on other Gaming wikis
Earlier this week I have tried to put links to Game Info on other wikis on the gaming category. Some of the other community members feel not happy about my action to: 1. put a prominent link on the front page without receiving consent from the existing community members. 2. put a link on BOTH the front page and the description page.

First of all, I apologize for broking the Wiki rules when I don't realize. I'm still pretty new to Wikis; I didn't know it's an impolite act until other Wikians express their disagreement to me. Thanks to those who have helped removing the links for me.

Having that said, I'd like to state my intention of adding the links on other wikis. I am trying to establish friendship and encourage more collaboration among the gaming communities, by putting Game Info's link on good wikis, and putting links to good wiki on Game Info. (For most wikis that I've added Game Info's link, I've added their links on Game Info too. But I apologize for adding links on both the front page and the description. ) My approach may be a bit wrong this time, and I am very sorry for the community members who feel offended. I hope we can promote our gaming community together in a more constructive way! =) --Eric 22:38, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Eric,

Thanks for promoting gameinfo by linking to it from Wikia's other gaming wikis. I think it's a good idea. :) Angela talk 00:11, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I disagree. These are description pages for individual wikia and should be related purely to those wikia, unless there is a genuine established relationship between the sites. Putting an advert for another wiki on them is like spamming links to alternate products on Wikipedia. I might feel less concerned had he not put the same text on the front page of the wikis concerned as well.
 * What makes GameInfo so important that it demands headline positioning on all these other wikis? The purpose of the GalCiv Wiki is not to funnel traffic to GameInfo Wiki. Nor is it for any other wiki on his list. Such additions should be requested from the existing wiki community, who can choose to make or not make a link to GameInfo, as they choose, and in the manner they feel appropriate. Being bold with the intent of improving a front page for the site's benefit is one thing (and I am more than guilty of it :-), but redirecting a site's traffic somewhere else is very bold indeed. --GreenReaper(talk) 09:10, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * As a Wikicities-themed analogy: Consider someone coming along to your city and planting a large "Twinned with Erehwon, the place where good things are" banner over the city limits, along with a nice big road leading there straight from your front door; even though you'd never heard of them before, they'd never discussed it with you, and they didn't have any plans to build a similar structure sending traffic back to you at the other end. And had "twinned" themselves with 20 other cities in a similar manner. On the same day. --GreenReaper(talk) 09:36, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Mass linking should be consulted with communities, same as on Wikipedia mass linking to external sites should be consulted with Wikipedia community. On Wikia, focused on wikis on limited topics, there shouldn't be additional advertising for more general wikis. Let them grow with a equal desciption pages on Central, do not favor any of them. There's already Category:Gaming, where Gameinfo is linked on the top for almost year. On IRC I've called this action spam and I still think so. Szoferka 09:39, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I meant that it was a good idea on the wikis themselves, not on the description pages... Since they're all linked to gameinfo via the gaming category tag, that link isn't need on those pages. Angela talk 15:10, 21 February 2007 (UTC)