User talk:129.93.54.108

Additions of http://.whitmanarchive.org
Please stop adding advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --Hu12 (talk) 19:25, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Hello, I am a student researching Walt Whitman, and I fail to understand how links to the Whitman Archive on pages dealing with Walt Whitman and his work can possibly count as spam. The Whitman Archive is considered the foremost authority on Walt Whitman, his life, and his work.

Many of the links I posted were updated versions of links that were already there, which you changed back to the original link. I do not understand this, as the link was already there, I changed it to a more informative and useful one, and it was changed back...not removed, like the many of the others. You state that I was spamming the site, yet you removed only some of the links. Some of the links had been there for quite a long time. I cannot see how updating it with a new link that leads to the same site is spamming.

Is there a way to revert the changes I made back to the way they were. I really believe there has been a mistake made here. The links I posted had everything to do with the subject matter of the page they were posted on.

Thanks.


 * All you've done is add links. Unfortunatly that's considered Linkspamming. --Hu12 (talk) 01:02, 6 November 2012 (UTC)


 * This makes no sense whatsoever. Why would adding links to the Whitman Archive on pages related to Walt Whitman, and his writings, be considered spam? I could see the relevance if I had been linking the Archive on pages not related to Whitman, but it really seems odd not to have these links available on pages that specifically deal with him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.93.54.108 (talk • contribs)


 * Personally, I think the links are beneficial—at least in the articles about his works (the bridge and the monument may be a bit more iffy). The links are to a free access archive of the texts of the works the articles are about.  This is just the sort of thing that external links are supposed to be used for.  Spinning  Spark  19:21, 6 November 2012 (UTC)