Talk:The Hermit's Cave

External links being systematically deleted
Please help me with...

I run a non-commercial, advertising-free website devoted to Old Time Radio. I publish a mixture of my own work and work submitted to me by fans. These include: plotlines, reviews, CD cover art, a comprehensive listing of radio adaptations of famous authors' work, top-10 lists, recommendations, and links to other websites. The site hosts over 2,100 plotlines and 1,300 reviews from 70 different radio series. The 'Famous Authors on Radio' page cross-references 2,800 stories from over 900 different authors. Since this is an ever-expanding work-in-progress, some of the pages are more complete and higher in quality than others. The website has been online for 17 years.

Several dozen of the Old Time Radio web pages at Wikipedia provide external links back to the corresponding pages at my website because my website provides copyrighted material that some people have found useful.

I did not create these links. But I do maintain them. (Actually, I did not create any of the original links -- many of which date to 2004 -- but, as my website has grown I have added links to new web pages.)

Lately, those links have been systematically deleted by one (or perhaps several) individuals. The reason given is 'Low Quality URL'.

I have read the Wikipedia section on External links. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#What_can_normally_be_linked It seems like the links to my website might fall in a grey area.

I am writing to ask if there is a community consensus on whether these links can remain? Or if, in the interest of improving Wikipedia, they should be removed? In other words, I can't tell if the links were justifiably deleted or whether they were the result of vandalism. (And if they were the result of vandalism, how I should proceed.)

Any help about how I should proceed to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

P.S. I have posted this question on the External Links board, but have not received any comments.

My home page: http://www.otrplotspot.com

An example Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Plus

The corresponding page that Wikipedia linked to: http://www.otrplotspot.com/2000Plus.html

The user who originally removed the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/197.41.9.94

Another example Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000X

The corresponding page that Wikipedia linked to: http://www.otrplotspot.com/2000x.html

The user who originally removed the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/197.41.157.234

IP Addresses that have deleted links.

41.33.191.185 41.187.88.115 192.219.44.68 195.212.29.19 195.212.29.178 196.147.88.56 197.41.9.94 197.41.157.234 197.41.218.29 197.48.26.18 197.48.64.69 197.48.198.166 197.48.230.228 197.49.55.185 197.49.67.14 197.49.79.171

ZootMutant (talk) 04:39, 16 June 2017 (UTC)