User talk:Sav552
March 2010[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Old Moonraker (talk) 11:05, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Hello Old Moonraker. The link currently used in the article (www.garrick-theatre.com) is for a third-party ticket agency attempting to pass themselves off as the official website of the Garrick Theatre. They are actually selling tickets for the show to consumers with large booking fees. The theatre is owned and operated by Nimax Theatres, therefore the official page for the Garrick Theatre is the one that I amended it to (http://www.nimaxtheatres.com/nimax/garrick). I will change this back. Consumers can buy tickets on the NimaxTheatres.com website and they should be directed there as it is the official source. Many thanks. Sav552 (talk) 13:08, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
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- I agree that third-party agencies passing themselves off as the Nimax official site are a nuisance: just booked for "Ghosts" and the real site didn't come up until the second page of search results (and what's Google doing about this you may ask) but that's irrelevant here: there shouldn't be any commercial links, pirate or genuine. Wikipedia doesn't exist to steer people towards a preferred web page to book shows. --Old Moonraker (talk) 14:01, 17 March 2010 (UTC)