User talk:DhaliaUnsung

August 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Space Pilot 3000 has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): \bwikia\.com\b (links: http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/futurama_wiki, http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/futurama_wiki). If the external link you inserted or changed was to an external Wiki, then please note that these links should generally not be included (see 'links to avoid' #12). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 03:37, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * We have been working very hard to bring the Futurama wiki up to speed and it has been greatly improved over the last few months. I see that other "fan sites" are listed under external links, so I see no reason why this wiki should not  have a link as well.  If a real live person disagrees with my edit I would be happy to discuss it further. -- DhaliaUnsung (talk) 05:35, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems fruitless to me. Given how there is already a much better alternative out there - which is the only other site linked in the particular example of Space Pilot 3000, you might want to compare the articles in question: Space Pilot 3000 and wikia:futurama:Space Pilot 3000.  Yeah, by the way, all Wikia wikis have a interwiki link.
 * It seems you have linked to your wiki rather than your article in question. Meh.  That is pretty lame. --Svippong 12:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not trying to be "lame", I'm merely trying to add a wiki to the Futurama pages. I was under the impression that wikis were connected to Wikipedia, and that a wiki would be preferable to an outside fan site.  I have tried to link the Space Pilot 3000 Wikipedia page to the Futurama Wiki's page for the same episode, as that makes more sense than linking the entire wiki.  :::Also, I have no idea what a "interwiki link" means, maybe you could be a little more polite and explain this to me.  If your only objection to the addition of the Futurama wiki to Wikipedia is that other sites have more information, I can understand that, though as I have stated, a great undertaking has been going on to improve the wiki.  I guess I just don't understand the objection to adding a wiki to external links, seeing as how other wiki's are added for other shows; for example, "X-Files", "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy", just to name a few. -- DhaliaUnsung (talk) 17:18, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I apologies if I was rude. I realise perhaps that not all people are so familiar with Wiki markup as myself.
 * For starters, interwiki links are links in  type links, which can link to external sites.  These are practical if you link to another site often, so you don't have to retype the URL constantly.  In addition, they avoid the icon at the end of the url.  Notice the difference: Space Pilot 3000 vs. Space Pilot 3000.
 * Moving on. The problem is that there is already external wiki links on Wikipedia articles for Futurama.  No need for more, don't you agree? --Svippong 17:25, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Thank you for explaining the links to me. I appreciate that.  No, I don't agree, I think there is room for one more link.  Maybe placing it on the actual Futurama article instead of on an episode article would be more agreeable to you?  -- DhaliaUnsung (talk) 23:21, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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Y'know, it's "lame" when someone from the infosphere is trying to block the addition of the Futurama wiki. No wonder you don't want more links. -- DhaliaUnsung (talk) 14:52, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ad hominem, much? You can keep your link on the Futurama article, but the link on the Space Pilot 3000 does not make sense, as your article is worse than the Wikipedia article.  It does not provide the reader with any more information.  On the contrary, our wiki's Space Pilot 3000 article provides the reader with far more content than the Wikipedia article could ever provide. --Svippong 15:11, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I wasn't trying to "argue against the man". In fact, I had felt bad about my post and was thinking about taking it down as it had nothing to do with what we were talking about.  Sorry you read it.  But I had been honestly wondering why you were so opposed and when I noticed (and it wasn't hidden information, I just hadn't read your user page, so my bad) that you were a part of the infosphere I was surprised.  I'm new to the Futurama wiki, just since May or so, but I understand there has been "bad blood"?  A few of us have been working very hard to improve the wiki and remove objectionable material.  I'd like to call a truce; after all, we're all just fans of an amazing show and that's something we can at least agree upon, right?  -- DhaliaUnsung (talk) 23:31, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree that Futurama is a brilliant show, and I am willing to call a truce (so to speak). But I am still wondering what the point is to have two wikis for the same popular culture.  Futurama is a niche anyway.  I'd assume it would serve the community the best if everyone worked on the same project.  But I guess that's just me. --Svippong 23:42, 7 August 2009 (UTC)