"Hi Everyone,

I hope we can get this all cleared up and move forward as good caretakers of this site. When I saw that one of my pages had been moved and saw the concerns about commercial postings I cleaned up one of my own posts in response to that. I also removed another wiki users posts on the main sea glass page that were very commercial and promotional in nature. I am sorry I thought I was allowed to do that since someone was consistently removing other sea glass related posts from that page as well, because of that I thought it was an acceptable practice. Please accept my apologies on that one! I kept wondering where the West Coast Sea Glass posts were going! They have been disappearing on a regular basis. Everyone should be able to participate and contribute and it is disappointing that one wiki user has taken it upon themselves to consistently and routinely remove others posts.

Lisl

Lisl"

"Paul, I respect your opinion highly. But I disagree about information pages. If you will only look at the National Directory. I created Arkansas and described the sites both commercial and non commercial and linked to all the commercial sites including the Diamond Mine. North Carolina and the gem mines, Georgia and the Holland School of Lapidary Arts, Oregon, California you name it have links to other sites. That a look at the page I created Great Museums EVER ONE has a link to the museum. Take a look a Origins of Agates I linked to agates sites. If the community wants me to delete all the information so there will be no linked pages I will gladly begin the arduous task. It will be a lot easier to hit delete than the time it took to gather all the information in one place.
Bill"

"I have gotten to the bottom of the issue, A commercial site had tried to take over the Sea Glass page and was deleting Lisl, my, and Mary Beth.s posts to the page. The party was was blatantly commercial and had no other intentions than to market products. It was not simply a link for more information but for all practical purposes a commercial site where any one perceived as competition was deleted. Lisl and Mary Beth have been putting up with this for weeks. Please report problems and they will be handled. Our sincere apologies to Mary Beth and Lisl.
Bill "

"Hi! I've been out of pocket for a few days and am trying to catch up.

First, I just wanted to point out for those that don't know, that the complete history update is available for each page with the name of the member that has made the changes. You can also request that a page be locked (or maybe do it yourself by using the "more tools" feature at the top of the page).

Secondly, I have also found the Seaglass pages to be very interesting and a nice addition to the site. I'm sorry that Mary Beth and Lisl have had so many problems. Jake, you've clarified the moving of the page to the Treasure Hunting section, but you get a spank on the hand - just kidding.

Now then, last but not least, I have several links on my 'OPAL - More to the Story page' with information posted at the top that some links will lead offsite and also references posted at the bottom, similar to a Wikipedia page. I also have a lot of information in my profile page about places that I have purchased items or received permission from the sellers for use of photos. Do I need to make any changes to make sure that everything is equitable? "