User talk:Bookworminoz

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Addition of external promotional links
Hi Bookworminoz

I see that you have been adding a series of external links to the Wikipedia pages of a variety of well-known Australians, which link to a commercial website promoting their services as speakers or MC's.

As as encyclopedia, Wikipedia does not, in general, allow promotional or advertising links of this kind. They are regarded as a form of spam, unfortunately.

I refer you to a couple of Wikipedia policy guide pages:

WP:PROMOTION

WP:LINKSPAM

I am proposing to remove all of these links as inappropriate. This note is just to let you know why, in advance. Machina.sapiens (talk) 08:44, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd note that you will also be blocked from editing if this continues: as Machina.sapiens notes, this is using Wikipedia for advertising purposes. Please remember that this is an encyclopaedia. Nick-D (talk) 11:36, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Hi Machina.sapiens and Nick-D,

Thanks for getting in touch, and for the links. I have read and understand the information. I have no affiliation with any of the websites I link to (I work in I.T.). I have been contributing to Wikipedia’s pages on famous Australians because I have a keen interest in famous Australians. While some of the websites I have provided links to may be commercial, they appear to be the official pages for these people, something Wikipedia users would like to know. There already exists links to commercial websites of a similar nature from the same pages. I’m unsure why these may be considered as promotion and/or link spam while other commercial sites are not? I’d very much like to continue my work with Wikipedia! I’d be most grateful for any guidance you can provide (beyond the links) if you have time.

Warm regards, Bookwirminoz

Very disappointing to see Machina.sapiens that you were not open to discuss before deleting. Bookworminoz (talk) 07:54, 20 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi again
 * Without wanting to cause undue distress, I would say that those links were very clearly of the kind that WP does not want to have. The fact that an administrator, Nick-D, leaped in to confirm the action is an indicator of that. I looked at them, and although they do contain some sort of biographical material, that does not outweigh the fact that they are clearly primarily advertising material, spruiking the subjects' services as speakers. The fact that there may be existing links on the page that violate a policy does not justify adding new ones.
 * WP does not want to be a link farm WP:NOTLINK - it only wants to have external links that extend the article in ways or at depth that would not be appropriate in a general encyclopedia. If you feel that the small amount of additional biographical material is of sufficient interest, it would be more appropriate to extend the article, rather than linking to another site. WP policies on Biographies of Living People are fairly strict, though, so i would suggest checking them out if you decide to take that path.


 * Machina.sapiens (talk) 18:00, 23 May 2015 (UTC)