User talk:Jstrange1265

Links to websites with which you are affiliated
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Wareh 14:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)


 * [[Image:Nuvola apps important.svg|25px]] Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Divine Comedy. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Wareh (talk) 13:48, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

There are a few different points to be made about the link you've added to your website.

(1) It is Wikipedia policy that you not add links to your own website (because this looks like self-promotion, and we don't want the encyclopedia's content to be determined by self-promotion: this applies to non-commercial content too). Instead, the proper procedure is to bring up the website on the article's talk page. If neutral, unaffiliated editors agree with you that it is valuable to link it, they will add it.

(2) In this case, editors are not going to agree with the case for linking it from Divine Comedy, though. Of the vast number of possible links to online content related to Dante's poem, our job is to present those that truly add something "relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject" (to quote WP:ELYES). It is nothing personal to say that a presentation of your art is not an important way to pursue study of, and get further information about, the subject of the Divine Comedy.

(3) In fact, as you know, your work is mentioned (with an in-article link to your website) at Dante and his Divine Comedy in popular culture. The article is somewhat misnamed and in fact deals with the cultural reception of the Divine Comedy in general: you receive mention there on an equal footing with, and you get as much space as, Borges, Blake, and many other towering figures in the history of arts and letters! To really apply Wikipedia policy to this mention would be to ask whether mentioning your work meets the standard of encyclopedic content. There's no single policy to cite here. The standard of notability governs what gets its own article but is often applied to such lists (WP:LSC). It requires that something "has received significant coverage in reliable secondary sources." The bottom line is, if someone wanted to strip the "popular culture" article of all mention of things that don't meet this criterion, the move might well get significant support. Consider that your entry on the "popular culture" page is one of the minority that does not provide any blue link showing a primary relationship to a topic (an artist, television series, etc.) given its own treatment in a Wikipedia article. So my advice is to be grateful that after the mention was added to that page, it has not been deleted.

Please don't take this personally. The point is not about your work and its interest or value! I realize that you have a website that attracts attention and that your work has been publicly exhibited. Just try to study the analogies, though (i.e. the existing list-members and external links, and how these are formatted), and you'll get a better sense of the standards for what does and doesn't fit where. Wareh (talk) 21:08, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

File:Dante Emerging from the Pit of Hell.jpg listed for deletion
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File:The Proud; Purgatorio.jpg listed for deletion
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