User talk:Jasonburg

DailyVault.com
All of your recent edits have been external links to music reviews on DailyVault.com. Judging from the similarity between your user name and the name on DailyVault.com, I'm guessing that you are the owner of that site. I want to remind you that Wikipedia editors are expressly prohibited from linking to their own sites because of conflicts of interest (see WP:EL and WP:COI); so if you are the owner of DailyVault.com, I'm asking you to please remove the links you've made to your site. Thanks. --JFreeman (talk) 16:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Misinterpreted
You wrote on my talk page:


 * You misinterpreted my entries. I added links in a handful of places where they were relevant and added something to the existing pages. If I was trying to advertise The Daily Vault, I would have to add links at a rate of 15 a day just to hope to catch up in the next year (we have published over 4500 reviews to date). My only interest was in adding relevant information to a few pages. Since that seems to be frowned upon, I'll stop now, even if I find the rule silly and annoying. Why does it matter who authored it if the content is clearly relevant to and adding value to the entry?

Thanks for the message. I understand your point, but the guidelines for external links are pretty clear (see External links).

The major concern with your links is that they represent a conflict of interest (see External links). Wikipedia does not wish to be involved with driving any viewers to your site, which would undoubtedly contribute to your income.

The second thing I'd like to point out is that a link is required to be symmetrically related to the subject of the article. It's clear that your review is related to a specific artist, but there's no evidence that the artist has a similar relationship with (dependency on) your website.

One thing I can suggest: if you feel strongly about a link from a particular Wikipedia article, please bring it up on the article's talk page. If there's a consensus that your link should be included, someone else can do so. That avoids the conflict of interest problem.

I read several of your reviews, and I found them both well written and well thought out. I wish you luck with your website, but I just don't think that links from Wikipedia are appropriate. --JFreeman (talk) 03:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)