User talk:Coverage1600

Concern regarding links to awesomestores.com
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia.

I noticed that you have been adding links to awesomestories.com onto many articles. If you are doing so to improve the encyclopedia, great! Just to make sure, though, I started a discussion about these links to make sure the links meet Wikipedia's policies. Please join the discussion and help clarify the situation. Thank you. --A More Perfect Onion (talk) 18:08, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Coverage1600. re the above discussion. You should immediately stop adding links, and state that you have stopped. Large-scale addition of links can be considered to be linkspam, even if the links are good. As to what you have added, ask on Talk pages of articles about their appropriateness, and participate in discussions that you have been notified of. There is a good chance that the site will be blacklisted, and whether or not this will occur depends on factors that I can't comment on yet, it would take research and there isn't time for me right now, plus different administrators have different ideas about what kinds of links are appropriate. I looked at the link added to Erin Brockovitch and it looked good to me, superficially, but there are many issues. If you have stated you have stopped adding links, pending discovery of consensus about this, you may be able to avoid blacklisting. Do it quickly. Good luck --Abd (talk) 22:38, 18 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Hi, You seem to have a good site at hand, but there are some concerns about how and where you add them. May I suggest you the following: contact an appropriate wikiproject, you can find them here: WikiProject, via banners on talkpages of pages you are interested in, or guess (my guess would be WikiProject Films).  There you can find editors who have similar interests, and they discuss about similar issues.  At first glance I would say that the links are quite suitable as references.  If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.  Thanks.  --Dirk Beetstra T  C 23:55, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Hi Coverage1600
Hi. I just read your comment on my talkpage. First, no, please don't stop editing, but do take some time to read through some of our policies and guidelines (see the welcome template on top of this page, most is linked from there), as there are concerns. Blacklisting, as was mentioned above, is a last measure, we hardly ever need to do that if people stop at first, and discuss.

Regarding the link, I would really suggest you, as I said above, to go to an appropriate wikiproject (see WikiProject, from there you can browse to a suitable wikiproject). They can give an evaluation on the link and the data contained on it, and discuss on how to proceed. I see that it is suggested your site contains valuable information, you may be able to expand our articles, and use the link as a reference. In other cases, maybe it is just useful as an external link. In that case, it should be put into the external links section (and not, as you did, in a separate section for this link). All in all, the mentioned wikiproject can both help you in suggesting the way forward, and if you make them aware of this site, they may also start using it. I hope this explains a bit, hope to see you around, happy editing. --Dirk Beetstra T C 10:38, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes. It is not that there was necessarily anything wrong with the links -- except for the separate section thing and maybe the link display --, it is that when many links are added by a single editor in a short period of time, it can be hard for other editors to review them. Beetstra's advice above is good. If you can't find an appropriate wikiproject, you could also go to the articles in question and ask in Talk about the link. If you have already put the link in the article, you don't have to remove it, just note on Talk that you added it, and put a diff to your edit. (You could write one generic notice to put on all the pages and pick up the diff from your contribution history, it's quick. Ask me if you don't know how to do this, and, if you need help, I might put up the notes myself.) If you have asked about the link, and a decent time elapses with no response, I'd say a week, then you can go ahead and add it and note that in your Talk section. It's a little more work, not much, and, again, if you need help, please ask for it. I intervened here because sometimes assumptions are made by those working to deal with the torrent of linkspam that if an editor adds a lot of links, they are linkspam, and blacklisting sometimes results, the editor might be blocked, etc. Your fast response probably headed off that danger. If you are connected with the web site, per WP:COI, then you should disclose that and do not add more links yourself, instead just post to Talk with advice, and, again, if there isn't response, ask me or others to review the edit. I don't have a lot of time, but I'd try. Again, echoing Beetstra, don't let this discourage you, and thanks for your hard work trying to improve the encyclopedia. --Abd (talk) 13:17, 19 February 2009 (UTC)