User talk:Mettimeline

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. 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. --Nlu (talk) 18:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Please stop adding commercial or personal-website links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 18:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Although perhaps not the worst example of spamming (or the inappropriate use of Wikipedia to promote another site), I would concur with Nlu that the links you have been adding today are not particularly useful and go against Wikipedia's guidelines on External Links. Please don't add any more of these links - they will just be reverted. -- Solipsist 20:27, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Dear Nlu: Thank you for your email. We are not a commercial site. We are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Timeline of Art History is our online resource visited by more than 20,000 per day, most of whom are students, teachers, professors, scholars, and art historians. If you were to review our contributions, you would see that these are links to directly related content on our site and this is done in an effort to broaden the audience to our educational resource. Please reconsider our contributions. We are interested in adding web links and not editing the existing textual content. Please advise on the proper methods.

Sincerely, Teresa Lai, Editor-in-Chief, Timeline of Art History mettimeline 17:32, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * In my opinion, the links were not compliant with WP:EL; however, if you disagree with me, you are certainly free to discuss whether your links should be allowed to stand by going to the talk page of the article in question. (As an example, if the link were to be added to, say, Donald Duck, the talk page would be Talk:Donald Duck.)  But your edits had another major problem; it was adding the wrong link to the articles, as the script that you were using to add the links apparently was one article off -- the link referred to the article that you had edited right before.  That needs to be fixed, at least.  But I still disagree with your addition of the links.  --Nlu (talk) 21:42, 19 September 2006 (UTC)