User talk:Bdaroff

Please stop spamming
see WP:SPAM. Johnbod (talk) 03:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

February 2011
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. ''Please stop spamming. The links you keep adding are not in accordance with WP:EL. The conflict of interest is also plain to see.'' Drmies (talk) 19:06, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

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A general response concerning your requests to include links to your site
That it's your site does raise concerns about a potential conflict of interest. However, there is WP:ELNO #11, which disqualifies "Links to blogs, personal web pages and most fansites, except those written by a recognized authority. (This exception for blogs, etc., controlled by recognized authorities is meant to be very limited; as a minimum standard, recognized authorities always meet Wikipedia's notability criteria for people.)" Unfortunately, you do not appear to be a recognized authority. Ian.thomson (talk) 15:24, 15 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Ian.thomson, Many thanks for addressing my requests to re-include external links to some of my projects. I would argue that my pages are not blogs or personal web pages. While you are correct, I am not a recognized authority, I noticed point #3 under WP:ELYES which allows for links to "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia." I believe my content is neutral, accurate and cannot be integrated into Wikipedia because my pages are image-based rather than text-based and involve flash/java mouse-over interactions. My project 'Stories in Art' (http://beckydaroff.com/stories/) contributes to an encyclopedic understanding of common themes in art such as Leda and the Swan or Danae and the Shower of Gold because it allows the user to visually compare how different artists handle these themes.