User talk:Aargabrite

Hi! I can't help but notice that this account seems to exist only to promote a specific web site. You should read the external links policy, because regardless of the merit of this site, posting lots of links to the same place makes you appear to be a spammer. May I recommend that you back off from adding this link to articles? You could recommend it in talk pages, and find some other ways to improve Wikipedia's articles about celebrities. -FisherQueen (Talk) 18:46, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Yamla 18:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

hi -- i read the page you referred me to, thank you. i won't add any more external links to articles unless they're appropriate (as i understand that term). i have a question, though: why do IMDB and other sites get proc links for celebrity names and movie titles? and i imagine those DO improve their search engine rankings?


 * No, as we use the nofollow tag, no links on the Wikipedia improve search engine rankings any more. imdb is linked in because the consensus of the Wikipedia community was that imdb provides valuable extra information that would not be appropriate to link in to Wikipedia directly, being that they are the preeminent site on the web for movie information.  Note, though, that we do not allow the use of imdb for citations (see WP:RS).  If I remember correctly, the site you were linking to provided photo galleries.  Please ignore the rest if that is not the case.  Photo galleries are not particularly notable as anyone can readily find them with a simple google search.  Additionally, almost all photo galleries include film screenshots, magazine scans, and images from wireimage.com, etc., all of which are blatant copyright violations.  As such, community consensus was to ban linking to all image galleries where such could be an issue.  --Yamla 19:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

ok. thanks very much for the clarification. -- Aargabrite 15:36 ET, 16 March 2007

also -- i was wondering: why are Yahoo Movies celeb pages not taken down, if imdb is the community consensus? (it's under External Links for Jessica Alba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_alba#External_links), for example) -- Aargabrite 16:27 ET, 16 March 2007


 * I don't know, I didn't add that link there. In general, though, there are a great many pages on the Wikipedia that contain links which should be removed.  --Yamla 20:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

edits to page Philip Morris International
Hi there! I saw your recent edits to the page Philip Morris International regarding the new Unsmoke campaign. First, welcome back to Wikipedia, looks like it's been a while! But more seriously, the reason for my visit to your talk page: based on the wording of your content, it's possible you might be affiliated with our company in some way. I would like to ask you to kindly remove the content you've added on April 17 and on April 25. I will be happy to request that the content be added using the formal edit request process. Thank you for your interest in the page! Just remember to avoid editing where you might have a conflict of interest. :) Cheers! Sarah at PMI (talk) 13:26, 26 April 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your note! I will remove the content I added. I believe that the content I added, particularly under "Recent developments," is quite important and relevant to that section, so I hope that you will request to have it put back ASAP. Thanks again! Aargabrite (talk) 17:21, 26 April 2019 (UTC)Aargabrite