User talk:Galleryab

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Hi, I have a question about the spamming. I can see that the links I have added, which included a citation, were removed and reported for spamming. I want to add more information, but I ran out of time yesterday. I am not spamming but adding links to reputable galleries, not just www.utopialaneart.com.au. Can you tell me what I did wrong? I want to add more citations and information but I won't be able to cite it if I can't add these external links. They are useful. Another gallery I would like to link to is Mbantua Gallery which has in the past been linked to many aboriginal wikipedia pages and I don't want to flag that as spam either. I personally have studied the industry for over 15 years and some of these pages on Australian aboriginal art are in need of some attention. Please help me. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Galleryab (talk • contribs) 3:53, November 5, 2015 (UTC)
 * Galleryab, please read our guildlines on external links here. Also please note that Wikipedia is not for promotion or advertising. External links should be used extremely rarely and never when it can be misconstrued as advertising. The way you added those links it looked like you were promoting those galleries. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Stabila711 (talk) 09:17, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. I have read the external links thank you, I still think external links should feature certain galleries as references, as they are leaders in their field of knowledge in indigenous art and some wikipedia pages have them on it already. None the less, I will not add them. However I need help to unblock the websites that I blocked, as I didn't mean to, and I need to add citations to them. I am trying to add one now to the small edit I made to the Dot Paintings section of Indigenous Australian Art. It cites a page on www.utopialaneart.com.au. I made the change but I can't cite the page. Also, I had added an external link for Kate Owen gallery, incorrectly I acknowledge, on Gloria Petyarre page. It hasn't been blocked, is there a reason for that and/or should I take this off? Thanks Galleryab (talk) 03:56, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the late reply. I never got the notification that you had pinged me. Anyways, there are limited instances when you could use an external link. However, your use of them seemed to have been promoting the gallery more than the artist. Lets take Emily Kame Kngwarreye for example.  The external links already on that page go to the actual artist's page.  For example The National Gallery of Australia link goes to an article about Kngqarreye.  The link you put in did not. It went to a general artist page.  I see that the Utopia Gallery does have a personal page for Kngwarreye but you did not add that one, you added a general link. So in essence, you added a link to the Kngwarreye article that really had nothing to do with Kngwarreye.  That is where the problem comes from.  The one you added on Gloria Petyarre actually goes to the Petyarre page, not to a general page so is much more appropriate (however, please don't be surprised is someone else removes it).


 * The main issue with external links is that they can be so easily abused for promotional and advertising purposes. That is why Wikipedia has such strict restrictions on their use. If you have any more questions please feel free to post on my talk page (at least that way I will be sure to get the message).  Thanks! --Stabila711 (talk) 18:50, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Please don't spam
Wikipedia has policies about the external sites we use as sources or may otherwise link to. Please do not spam sites that fail these requirements. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  12:56, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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November 2015
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