User talk:Kiwijoe1971

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Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopaedic contributions, but some of your recent additions of external links through this user name and IP 121.98.154.87 seem to be for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not function as a link directory; for more information on this, see If you still have questions, there is a new contributor's help page, or you can write   below this message along with a question and someone will be along to answer it shortly. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia. I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Ckatz chat spy  07:30, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
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I'm sorry - all I was trying to do was to add some international flavour - putting a link to a New Zealand review of the movies. It seemed to be in fitting to the external links that you already have there:


 * Max Payne at Allmovie
 * Max Payne at the Internet Movie Database
 * Max Payne at Metacritic
 * Max Payne at Rotten Tomatoes

Are these not all just as much 'for promotional purposes' as my putting a link in for FIlmGuide?

In fact just about anything placed in an 'External Links' section would be some form of promotion for a website outside of wiki would it not?

If you can give me good reason why having a link to a NZ review of the movie you have made a page about is a bad idea I will stop putting links up, if not I will continue to post links to NZ Film Reviews.
 * Hi kiwijoe. The reason why a specific country's reviews aren't really needed is simple: what makes that review notable over any others? Allmovie/Metacritic/IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes are well-known notable sites that compile and aggregate data. While it's true that they are commercial sites, the main purpose is to provide information. I hope that helps... and could you send me a jar of Scarlet Manuka honey maybe? I haven't had any in years... [ roux  ] [ x ] 11:41, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

So If I send you some honey.... will that make me a 'notable site' that can be linked on wiki......
 * No. Notability is defined in our policy about notability. You should also read our policies on verifiability and reliable sources. Cheers. [ roux  ] [ x ] 20:37, 18 October 2008 (UTC)