User talk:Gregorius77

Ezekielbearsports
Please stop adding commercial links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 02:11, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


 * External links says more about that. In particular, the section Links normally to be avoided says that forums generally should not be linked to. It also says not to link to sites that you own or maintain.  It is true that there are probably other links on the page which are inappropriate per this policy, but catching them is a constant work in progress for us.  We try not to have double standards regarding links. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 19:14, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: Dabullz.net
Which pages on this website have links to Dabullz, other than Chicago Bulls? I couldn't find any. Chicago Bulls is a borderline case since at least Dabullz has to do with that team in particular. I've removed the link to Dabullz from that page for now, but I did ask on the talk page about how significant the site is among Bulls fansites. Some fan sites I would include in external links include websites like MarlinsBaseball and Orioles Hangout, since they are the most well-known fansites for their specific teams. (I don't know basketball fan sites very well, so I used some examples from baseball.) If Dabullz.net shows up on some of the other NBA teams' pages, then they probably do just want to advertise and shouldn't be doing it here.

I have a huge watchlist right now, so I might miss the links getting added back, but I'll try to keep an eye out for Dabullz showing up on other pages. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 21:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe. I'd say that you should wait until it's become one of the more prominent forums on the NBA.  You could track the site's popularity over time with Alexa and compare it to Alexa Test or Notability (websites).  Listing your site at the Google Directory or the Open Directory Project is probably a good first step, if it's not already there.  There are probably many forums around that have to do with the NBA, whether team-specific or not, so that gives our articles a lot of potential to have huge listings of fansites and forums in the external links.  In those cases, I like to replace the list of fansites with a Google Directory or Yahoo Directory link showing the list of fansites.  (I've used that, or similar ways of paring down a list of links, on Danica Patrick and The Sims 2.)  In general, external links should cover mainly the content in the article (use the links in that section mainly as sources or references, if most of the article comes from them; I did that when I expanded Paramount's Kings Dominion last night, since a lot of that rewrite came from the COASTER-net source).  One or two very prominent fansites could be listed also. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 19:14, 28 July 2006 (UTC)


 * For Bullscast, I would say you should ask at Talk:Chicago Bulls, since people who edit that page probably have a better idea of how significant their site is to Bulls fans. You could just leave a message about it on that talk page and then remove the link with an edit summary like "/* External links */ Removed Bullscast - see talk page".  That's perfectly acceptable.


 * Your site probably shouldn't be listed on the NBA articles at this time, since those are articles which could get huge fansite lists in their external links sections. To me, the external links section should be used mainly for sites that provide sources for the content in the articles (if inline citations - just putting the site's address in [square brackets] after a sentence - would have to be used several times otherwise).  You could also ask about that at Talk:National Basketball Association, but you'll probably get a similar response.


 * We also have a WikiProject National Basketball Association, if you're interested in working with that. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 18:52, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

EBSports
Hey, sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I must have read your message right before bed the night you sent it, or something like that. I think External links may have changed in the last few months. It now says that we should not have links that are mainly intended to promote a website or sites that aren't directly related to an article's subject. Hope that helps! --Idont Havaname (Talk) 03:45, 11 May 2007 (UTC)