User talk:Fgrynde

February 2007
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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising in articles. For more information on this, see If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Belovedfreak 22:08, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
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Links to FranksFilms:

I understand the concern that Wikipedia links not be used for advertizing and self promotion. However, FranksFilms does NOT feature any advertizing. Most other regular film links, such as "Internet Movie Database", "Rotten Tomatoes", and "Roger Ebert", are crazy with advertizing and use such links to draw eyes to that advertizing. FranksFilms does NOT engage in promotion. The author's name doesn't even appear on the site, and thus does not benefit from increased hits.

Feedback has been very positive that readers have found useful insights and information from the site. However, I would not want to violate Wikipedia policy by contributing such links to these movie pages. Rather, I would prefer to work within the rules.

Would you reconsider the merits of these links, or, would you suggest ways to improve my contributions to conform within the current standards?


 * Please do not place the helpme tag as the section heading, it doesn't render properly and means the section edit link doesn't appear making it harder for those offering help to respond. Not for advertising and self promotion, tends to refer to the advertising of the site itself not advertising on that site. Without seeing the context of those complaining about the links it is difficult for me to comment. Please refer to what wikipedia is not, not only is wikipedia not a vehicle for self promotion etc. it also isn't merely a link farm either. The external links policy details the kind of thing which should typically be linked. I'll leave the helpme tag in place in case any of the other helpers can add to this --pgk 20:42, 7 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I am removing the helpme tag, as PGK answered the question sufficiently and it is creating spam on the #wikipedia-bootcamp channel. Sorry :) GofG undefinedundefinedundefined  Contribs 21:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

FranksFilms
Thanks for your message. My concern with adding this link would be that it is a blog, and as such is considered normally to be avoided. If we include one site like this, why not countless others? I can see your points however and I suggest that if you want to include the links, why not see what other people think by posting on the talkpage of the film article in question, or on Wikipedia talk:External links or on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Films. I try to follow the guidelines when eliminating spam but boundaries are often blurred so it would probably help to get other opinions. Thanks Belovedfreak 18:11, 8 March 2007 (UTC)