User talk:Allysonbcrawford

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, 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 for advertising or promotion. Since 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 before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Ben W Bell  talk  04:30, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Linkspamming
Hi there. Can you please stop spamming your personal website all over Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of external links, and it most certainly is not the place to promote your own company/organisation/personal works. Please read WP:EL before continuing to edit. Ben W Bell  talk  04:32, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I would like to know why you consider links to true interviews (passed around the globe, I might add) as link spamming? The links are legit and provide real context for the article and track-back. I assume you didn't even look at the content before you deleted willy nilly. Ah, the wiki power.


 * I did have a look at some yes, however you are the owner of the site and it appears you are simply adding links to your site as a promotion for it. Please read WP:COI as you really shouldn't be adding information on yourself, or promoting yourself/business/organisation on Wikipedia. Also while yes the articles you have posted are not idle articles, they are of questionable encyclopaedic content. I have to ask how they improve or add to the articles as anything more than links to your own site. Ben W Bell   talk  04:52, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Clearly you didn't give any of the articles much thought, because you didn't even allow enough time to read the content. That's fine. It's Wiki standard to keep content up to date. My articles could provide that, and they've already been all over the Internet, so it's not really a loss to me. Silly me thinking if someone, say, wanted to know more about the band "Crashdiet" they would have another article to peruse.

Also, they are certainly not of questionable Encyclopedic content. They are direct, first person accounts and quoted in proper - and professional - journalistic form. I'm not a spammer and don't appreciate the accusation.


 * I actually read several of the articles in question and must say they're probably borderline edging towards reasonable to allow. But the problem is Wikipedia isn't a collection of links, and if we linked to all interviews by members of bands and the like it would just end up a massive collection of links, which isn't what Wikipedia is here for. Also on a personal note I'd have felt better about it if you'd added one or two, but you hit many articles in a short period of time with the apparent intention of adding external links to your own personal site and that just appears to editors that you're spamming and engaging in self-promotion. It appears to editors as a real conflict of interest and editing with the intent of solely promoting your site. Combined with the facts that all your edits have been just linking to your site would support this in the minds of most editors. Ben W Bell   talk  05:10, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Rock Gone Wild
A tag has been placed on Rock Gone Wild, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as the Business' FAQ for more information.

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