User talk:Companyofwolves

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. SFC9394 19:09, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

re: Erroneous flagging of link spam.
Thank you for your comments, please see WP:EL for a full run down of the policies we have here at wikipedia with regard to external links. Basically all you have done is add links to a single website across tens of articles (and if it was acceptable then the precedence would be set for that to be replicated across thousands of articles). The site is commercial (there are adverts at the side and the bottom of the page), and as you so correctly point out the content is in the public domain (hence we have it replicated at here at wikisource - ad. free). Basically your links were removed because they add nothing new to the articles and the methodology of the way they were being added suggested a website was being promoted rather than the reader being helped. Thousands of sites contain the content that the one you were linking to has - we can't have an article filled up with thousands of links. SFC9394 22:04, 8 September 2007 (UTC)


 * "Because a site may have commercial elements to it does not mean it is a bad site" Indeed - but when a site contains nothing but content that is available from a non-commercial source then it does mean it is a not preffrable site.  Individual, indpendent, editors will have added links to gutenberg - "they" - don't exsist.  "My suggested link offers search features that these other sites do not even touch, or could touch."  Apart from our own wikimedia project, wikisource.  If your suggested link was a well known central source then there might be some merit, but it garners 10 hits on google, (including self-refferential ones).  At the end of the day anyone can set up a website, copy a load of poems by well known (& PD authors), add a sprinkling of banner ads and then attempt to make money.  Wikipedia, as one of the top 10 websites on the www, has to ensure people only interested in making money can't spam such sites here - hence the strict rules we have in place on external links.  SFC9394 00:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)