User talk:Bestlife

Hi there... are you sure this is the link you meant to remove in your recent edit to The Secret (film)? I saw no advertising--it appeared perfectly relevant. Wysdom 02:53, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

The website is a personal blog and was covered in Google ads. It was added again after I removed it and another editor (WikiLen) removed it. As I understand WP:EL, both WikiLen and I are correct in removing it. I only listed it as being removed for advertising because I didn't feel like typing all of the reasons it should be removed. I guess I should have listed all of them so that I wouldn't have to clarify the appropriate removal here.

Hi again. Your recent edit to Vision boards noted that you were removing "spam/unrelated links"... however, neither link was commercial and both were related. Is there something I'm not seeing, here? Wysdom 03:53, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

The first site is about the Law of Attraction, not vision boards. It doesn't even mention vision boards. The second site is a commercial site for fitness training - the banner, the links, the products, the events, the testimonials, etc. Everything on the page is promoting a commercial fitness site. I suspect they created something on vision boards 1) to get people to go to their website and purchase their fitness products and 2) to get a link from Wikipedia (even though Wikipedia is set as no follow for links, the links are still followed by some sites, such as Yahoo, and provide a boost in rankings). Hence, I consider it to be a link that violates WP:EL and should be removed.

I just reviewed the history of the vision board site. Regarding the commercial site, Jossi has removed it for the same reason in the past.


 * I apologize, on both counts. The first one (the blog) seemed relevant to me b/c it wasn't blatant advertising and dealt with a review of the film from that specific POV--but I can see from the (necesarry) limitations outlined in WP:EL that you were correct to remove it. The second one--I don't have any excuse for that one >.< Having thought I'd identified someone with ADLiRS (Agenda Driven Link Revmoval Syndrome), I didn't look close enough at the framework the article was presented in--so much legit stuff is framed by adcrap these days, mine eyes have grown numb... er, and I jumped the gun. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa (don't beat me?) ;D Sincerely, though, my apologies. Best wishes, Wysdom 09:48, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Law of Attraction
Thanks for the note, the talk page has not been deleted but archived here I can not find the relevant information about that link. Only a short mention of a problem with the EL, could you take a look and see if you can find it? We should discuss this on the article talk page so that there is a record their. Thanks. Tmtoulouse 21:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)