User talk:Mpmam

Spam
Your account appears to exist only to add links to Moving Pictures Magazine. Regardless of the quality of the link, you are here to promote a specific web site, which is against the policy on external linking. You should stop, because your current pattern of edits will very likely get you blocked as a spammer, and might even result in the web site being added to the blacklist of web sites that cannot be added to any article. -FisherQueen (Talk) 18:20, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. -FisherQueen (Talk) 18:21, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for the information regarding spam on Wikipedia.

The external links I've provided are links to copyrighted material, the interviews between Moving Pictures Magazine and actors/directors/filmmakers. These interviews add to the knowledgebase on the actor/director/filmmaker and are not advertisements or intended to be spam. Most of the interviews are the full-length and are excellent sources of information regarding the perspectives and experiences of the persons interviewed. I believe the welcome page agrees that interviews are an acceptable source of information, and a good thing to contribute.

Hopefully, this will not be considered spam. Thank you.


 * Sure, the source itself looks very useful. But when you're only here to promote one web site, you're spamming no matter how good the source is.  I suggest that instead of adding your site directly, you use the talk page of an article to ask other editors if they think it would be useful, and let someone else add it if it seems to fit that article's needs. -FisherQueen (Talk) 19:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)