User talk:HorrorMonkey

This is the only warning you will receive. Your recent insertion of spam, commercial content, and/or links is prohibited under policy. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Dreaded Walrus t c 19:54, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Re: My spamming.
I am not clear on how I was spamming. Example for SkinWalkers there is a link to an exclusive clip on IESB and i added a link to a new different exclusive clip on the site TerrorFeed.com. How is IESB not spam but TerrorFeed is? I am not a bot and I think am adding links of value and no different then the links aready listed on the pages I edited and contributed to. Hopefully this is the correct way to reply. Tks for your help! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HorrorMonkey (talk • contribs).


 * The reason why it is seen as spamming is because your edits up to this point have consisted entirely of adding external links to encyclopedia articles, often ones which promote themselves (such as here, with "Latest reviews, interviews & News!").
 * You must also remember that Wikipedia is not a mere repository of links. While I haven't looked into the IESB.net links you mention, I'm willing to guess that they were not added by people associated with the site. I'm also tempted to look at the Alexa.net rankings for the sites involved, as we often do that when thinking about the suitability of external links here on Wikipedia, and when I do that, I get a graph like this one:
 * The Alexa rank for terrorfeed.com is 309,503, while the rank for iesb.net is http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=iesb.net 21,322]. Also of note is, when checking the sites linking in, only two sites (excluding horror-movies.ca) link to terrorfeed.com, and one of those is a forum topic which seems to redirect to the site's main page, while with iesb.net, there are 665 sites linking in.
 * If you want, feel free to continue this discussion here, I have your page on my watchlist, so while I may take a little while to reply, rest assured that I probably will. :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 20:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks Walrus. I see your point and will try to make sure my links are very relevant. Was never my intent to be off topic or irrelevent. That said I think the exlusive skinwalkers video is still relevant. I realize IESB may have a higher Alexa Ranking but i think if their link is fair game the TF one should be to. its relevant, on topic and the same sort of content. Just a smaller source site :)

Hopefully I am replying the right way I am UBER green to this. Thanks for your patience and help! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HorrorMonkey (talk • contribs).


 * No problem at all. You're definitely replying the right way. And thank you for being civil and for staying polite about the whole thing. I have all the time in the world for people who are being polite.
 * One thing we usually recommend, if you have a potential conflict of interest (i.e. are affiliated with the site you want linked), is, if you feel a particular link is useful, go to the talk page of the article, and make a new section header (click the "+" icon at the top of the talk page), explain what your link is, and why you think it should be added. Then, an established user, not affiliated with the site, will be able to make the decision on whether it should be included or not.
 * As always, if you have any other questions, feel free to ask them. Just remember to sign your posts by adding ~ to the end! :) --Dreaded Walrus t c 11:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC)