User talk:Zpenacho

Welcome to StrategyWiki!
Hello Zpenacho! Welcome to StrategyWiki. Thank you for your contributions. If you have any questions, just contact a sysop through their talk page or post on the staff lounge, and they'd be happy to help. If you need help editing, check the StrategyWiki Guide. If you have a question about the content on this wiki, you can check out our staff lounge page. If you want to ask questions or hang out in IRC, we're usually around. On the other hand, if you have ideas for StrategyWiki, bring them up on the forums. Please remember to sign your name on, and only on, talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (    ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field as this helps to document all of your hard work. Feel free to delete this message from your talk page if you like, or keep it for reference. Happy editing! -- DrBob (talk) 06:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

gta4onlineguide.com
Please stop posting blatant adverts to this website. StrategyWiki aims to collect all the walkthrough information for games in one place, and not simply be a compendium of links to other websites which may change or disappear over time. If you wish to use gta4onlineguide.com as a source for writing full walkthrough information on StrategyWiki (or wish to copy verbatim from the site, if its licence permits — I cannot find licencing information on that site), we'd be happy for you to do so. Otherwise, blatant adverts such as the ones you created will be deleted. Thanks, and keep editing! --DrBob (talk) 06:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your e-mail. I hope you understand our position on such external links — we don't want to rely on data on another site which may disappear or be lost over time. If it's hosted here, then we can guarantee the data will remain. One thing you could do, if you wanted, would be to put a link to gta4onlineguide.com in an "External Links" section on the main page (only) of the GTA4 guide. That's perfectly acceptable, since gta4onlineguide.com seems to be a decent and useful external resource. --DrBob (talk) 06:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I've added the external link. Let me just re-iterate that it would be a whole lot better if the content on gta4onlineguide.com could be merged into the StrategyWiki guide. We're always looking for new partnerships, and this one could work out well. --DrBob (talk) 08:20, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It would be great if you could find some time to merge in content from that site, but I must stress that this can only be done if the site's licence is compatible with StrategyWiki's (i.e. GFDL or equivalent), or you have written permission from the site owner. If not, content cannot be copied verbatim, but the site could be used as a source for facts for newly-written pages on StrategyWiki. I realise this is usually a lot of work, so it's probably best to liaise with the owner of gta4onlineguide.com about it first. --DrBob (talk) 09:17, 12 October 2008 (UTC)