User talk:Ammo.nut

July 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. ROG5728 (talk) 20:16, 7 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi ROG5728, thanks for reaching out. I noticed your series of edits.  In trying to comply with the ToS and spirit of Wikipedia, I (a) disclosed that I was a part of the team sent by Guns For Sale to these factories and (b) have not linked to Guns For Sale in any of my edits.  These videos are high-quality & authoritative - not spammy or promotional.  Like thousands of other brand videos on YouTube which are referenced by Wikipedia, they have a pre-roll on them because they're on the Guns For Sale YouTube channel.  However, the content is not sales-based; the videos actually have no sales content in them whatsoever.  Furthermore, the feedback on these videos has been overwhelmingly positive and I believe they are honestly good additions to Wikipedia, especially as they contain visual footage the respective Wikipedia pages lack.  Furthermore, I have additional information, pictures & videos which were captured on-site from these factories I visited that I'd like to contribute to Wikipedia.  However, I don't want to run afoul of the ToS or spirit of Wikipedia nor the terms of my employment contract by not properly giving credit for where this information came from so please tell me how I can help accomplish both. Thanks! Ammo.nut (talk) 22:46, 7 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. The videos you linked do indeed advertise (and even directly link to) Guns For Sale, via their titles and descriptions. To quote the WP guideline at WP:EL: "...in line with Wikipedia policies, you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent." See also, the guideline at Spam.


 * Aside from that, the videos themselves are not particularly high quality; the voices are borderline inaudible in some of the factory interviews, and Guns For Sale is not an established source of information anyway.


 * As for adding images on Wikipedia, see the upload tool at Wikimedia Commons. Once an image has been uploaded at Wikimedia it can be added to any Wikipedia article. Note that images uploaded to Wikimedia will become freely usable, just like text entered in Wikipedia articles. ROG5728 (talk) 00:59, 8 July 2011 (UTC)