User talk:Extra mile 4 you

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection of links; nor should it be used as a platform for advertising or promotion, and doing so is contrary to the goals of this project. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

This is the only warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. --Dirk Beetstra T C 14:20, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing Wikipedia for continuing to add spam links. If you wish to make useful contributions, you may place unblock on your user talk page to have the block reviewed. Persistent spammers will have their websites blacklisted from Wikipedia.

--Dirk Beetstra T C 14:30, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, to address your points in order: we have a policy against adding external links in general, preferring to introduce actual text into articles where possible and to not provide advertising for sites. Without regard to the nature of your site, any account that is rapidly adding only links to an external site is pretty much by definition a spammer and is blocked. Per WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, you would most likely have to establish that CFDB is a reliable source on our Reliable Sources noticeboard and then use it to support the statements in articles...but just because IMDB is considered an ok source doesn't mean that we have to include your source. Cheers. Syrthiss (talk) 15:22, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * IIRC, IMDB is not regarded a reliable source. --Dirk Beetstra T  C 15:24, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I believe it can be considered reliable for filmography content (ie Joe Blow starred in How the West Was Won 2: The Westeninig), but not for biographical bits. I don't know if thats our official position on IMDB, but my personal view. Syrthiss (talk) 15:28, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * When I've seen it come up before, the general consensus has been that IMDB is not a reliable source, because it's user-edited, like Wikipedia. People do use it to cite filmographies, but if someone says, "hey, he wasn't in that movie," you won't win the disagreement without a real source. At least, that's my understanding based on other discussions.  If CFDb is user-edited, it isn't any more reliable than IMDB, and I don't see any reason that Wikipedia would need links to it on movie pages.  -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 17:06, 26 April 2010 (UTC)