HikingMike1

No can haz link? I thought people might want to know where I'm coming from.

"limited autobiographical and personal content" Wikipedia:User pages

Aha! "You are also welcome to include a simple link to your personal home page"

Ah I see "although you should not surround it with any promotional language. However, if a link to your home page is the only thing on your userpage, this may be seen as an attempt at self-promotion."

"Excessive unrelated content... Unrelated content includes, but is not limited to: Promotional and advocacy material and links... Advertising or promotion of an individual, business, organization, group, or viewpoint unrelated to Wikipedia (such as commercial sites or referral links). Extensive self-promotional material, especially when not directly relevant to Wikipedia."

Twas not extensive, definitely. Self-promotion? Eh maybe. I don't expect much promotion to come out of that, lol. I was thinking more of it as background. Hey here is this new user, he posted a photo to an article, who is this guy that thinks he can do that?, let's poke around, wow he already put something on his user page let's see what that is, oh a website hmm, this website appears to make this user zero US dollars as it has no advertising and not much traffic, oh he has hiked in the Sierra Nevada quite a bit, he knows a fair amount about natural phenomena of this area which happens to be the subject of the article to which he posted the photo, ok that might be a decent photo for this article, I think that will do. Or... hey what a noob pleb let's blank his page.

Well anyway, I'll try again: I like hiking and backpacking. I have a website about that kind of thing and you can check it out if you want some background on me. It is located at the domain named by my username, minus the 1 (grr), and then dot com.

Maybe in the future I will include a simple link to my personal home page as stipulated in the user page documentation, as long as it is not the only thing here, and certainly with no promotional language. I assimilate with you, wikiborg.

"Besides communication, other legitimate uses of user space include (but are not limited to):... Notes related to your Wikipedia work and activities... Personal writings suitable within the Wikipedia community - Non-article Wikipedia material such as reasonable Wikipedia humor, essays and perspectives, personal philosophy, comments on Wikipedia matters"

HikingMike1 (talk) 01:23, 9 December 2015 (UTC) Languages I know: English

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