User talk:Pavospicasso

Regarding your spamming of Silvia Saint
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 rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 16:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm replying to the e-mail you've sent to me on your talk page, since I feel that the community can best chime in on this. (I'm really not a go-to person for these sorts of things, since my usage of WP is intermittent.) Please address your replies here on the talk page, since I see absolutely no reason why this has to be taken off the Wiki.
 * In reply to your contention that you need the affiliate link to track traffic... I hate to break it to you, but traffic can be tracked without the link, if you have statistics software on your webserver. For instance, I run Battlestar Wiki (http://www.battlestarwiki.org), and I can go on the control panel of my webserver software and pull up statistical information about how many people are referred to the site by Wikipedia, Scifi.com and other sites. So that option is open to you, should you have that kind of server access and software available. I use Webalizer and it works wonders.
 * All links needs to be pure and direct; they can't be redirects that eventually lead you to the site in question. That's Wikipedia policy, and it exists for a reason. Affiliate or referrer links are banned from Wikipedia for the obvious reasons, and are removed immediately on site, since they are the most easiest things to misuse.
 * Hope that addresses your concerns! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 19:41, 16 January 2008 (UTC)