User talk:Clydefro

Ace in the Hole (1951 film)
Hello,

You deleted the link I placed in the Ace in the Hole film page and wrote it was a "vanity link." Maybe this is common practice, but I felt your action was unfair. I placed the link there for people looking for more information and analysis on the film. I had noticed that the page for the film Scarlet Street had a link and enjoyed reading it so I figured others might have the same reaction to my own link to Ace in the Hole. It was not intended for "vanity" at all. I'm very proud of the link and felt it worthy of being placed for others to learn more about the film. Is that not what an external link should achieve?


 * Hello, User:Clydefro.


 * It is indeed "common practice" on Wikipedia to remove links to a site that are added by the person who created or runs the site, or somehow has a vested interest in that site. The reasoning behind this is that a Web author is not the best judge of the "notability" of his or her site. If a site is truly notable then someone other than the site's author will think so and link to it. For example, even though I think that my site on TV criticism (www.tvcrit.com) has notable information to add to numerous TV articles, I recognize that I have a vested interested in tvcrit.com and thus I do not link to it.


 * Wikipedia used to refer to an author linking to his/her own sites as "vanity" linking or "spam" linking--much as a "vanity press" publishes works written by the owner of the press. I went over to check on this Wikipedia policy just now and see that they've renamed it "conflict of interest". The principle remains the same, however.


 * I see you undid or "reverted" my deletion of your links. I don't believe in engaging in "revert wars" and won't delete it again, but you should know that some Wikipedia editors are very pugnacious about deleting conflict-of-interest links (I'll stop calling them "vanity links" now!). If you continue linking to your own site, you'll find the links will often be deleted.


 * And in a final bit of Wikipedia etiquette, you are encouraged to sign comments by placing --~ at the end of them. It'll result in something like, --Jeremy Butler 13:34, 28 January 2007 (UTC)