User talk:Brianlane

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Why are you spamming articles with links to movielandmarks.com? IrishGuy talk 00:43, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

October 2007
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 01:36, 7 October 2007 (UTC) ‎

So, why is adding links to a relevant site, that doesn't display advertising, considered spamming? Some relevant points:
 * MovieLandmarks.com uses a Google Maps mashup to display movie locations. Hence the tag of 'on Google Maps' not 'at Google Maps'. If you have a preferred way for me to name it, let me know.
 * The links were to the specific movies in question, not to some spam landing page.
 * These links add relevant and unique content to the Wikipedia articles.
 * You have links to Internet Movie Database as well as other commercial movie related sites that actually DO display advertisements on their pages. Why the double standard?
 * As for the note about trying to raise page rank in Google, that is not the goal. The goal is to provide a new, unique feature to Wikipedia movie entries.
 * Yes, I created MovieLandmarks.com -- so what? Who else is going to spend the time to link hundreds of movies.
 * On some of those pages I also added links to other relevant sites.

I am not sure if this is the proper way to respond to these accusations, so I will post this on my talk page as well. User:Brianlanetalk


 * Adding links to your own website is a conflict of interest. Mass adding links to your own website is spamming. IrishGuy talk 18:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

WP:AUTO
You should wait for others to write an article about subjects in which you are personally involved. This applies to articles about you, your achievements, your band, your business, your publications, your website, your relatives, and any other possible conflict of interest.

Creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. If you create such an article, it might be listed on articles for deletion. Deletion is not certain, but many feel strongly that you should not start articles about yourself. This is because independent creation encourages independent validation of both significance and verifiability. All edits to articles must conform to No original research, Neutral point of view, and Verifiability.

If you are not "notable" under Wikipedia guidelines, creating an article about yourself may violate the policy that Wikipedia is not a personal webspace provider and would thus qualify for speedy deletion. If your achievements, etc., are verifiable and genuinely notable, and thus suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later. (See Wikipedians with articles.)  ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 18:56, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Please don't delete warning messages
Please don't delete warning messages. Such action is considered vandalism by some. After reverting an edit, many editors will look at the talk page to see if such actions happened before. Removing warnings is a form of concealing past behavior. -- wrp103 (Bill Pringle) (Talk) 23:19, 4 November 2007 (UTC)