User talk:Poprockcandymountain

April 2008
Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. The links that you are adding are obviously self-promotional and do not conform to wikipedia's external links policy. Trusilver  06:33, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok. We are a legitimate online pop- culture magazine. Why is it that certain websites are linked here, more well known sites and you are accusing me of spamming? I don't appreciate that at all. Can you tell me how we can resolve this?

Thanks, Poprockcandymountain (talk) 06:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not denying that you are a legitimate pop-culture magazine, there are however about six hundred equally legitimate online pop-culture magazines out there and they all do not get links. If you looked at the external link policy, you would have noticed our intention to keep the number of external links to a bare minimum. For musicians, this normally consists of one or two official websites and material that is directly relevant. I know that there are articles out there that are not conforming to this policy, mostly because nobody has taken the time yet to trim the lists down to the bare essentials.


 * This is all beside the point though, your user name and your contributions which consist entirely of spamming links to your site show beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no interest in bettering the articles here. Rather, your interest lies entirely in promoting your publication. Trusilver  06:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Wow. Hi, nice to meet you. Accusing someone of spamming is a big deal, and I'm sure you are aware of that fact. Contrary to your blatant judgment of my character, I was planning on writing and entry on Christian Langdon, adding to Colin Hay, etc. However, according to your links policy, I was well within my rights to add the links to our interviews:

What should be linked

1. Articles about any organization, person, web site, or other entity should link to the official site if any. 2. An article about a book, a musical score, or some other media should link to a site hosting a copy of the work if none of the "Links normally to be avoided" criteria apply. 3. Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks) or other reasons. 4. Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as reviews and interviews.

I apologize if I misunderstood this policy. But I assure you, I am not a spammer. I am blown away by your attack. You could have chosen to discuss this with me to find out what my understanding was before you labeled me as a spammer.

Thanks, Amanda Brumfield


 * Understand that in a given day I will see a dozen incidents exactly like this one. Everyone feels that their site has a 'right' to have their links here. If we allowed it to get out of control, you would see a hundred external links for every article. A vast majority of the single-purpose accounts (which is to say... accounts that are created by someone who has a set agenda on Wikipedia) that start posting links are only here to promote themselves. And P.S., if you really are interested in contributing - you are going to need to change your name. Typically, any username that is promoting something is blocked immediately (WP:U). I have held off because I wanted you to at least have your say and get an explanation first, but if you are honestly interested in being a part of the project, it would be better to make the change now rather than find yourself suddenly blocked by another administrator who caught on. Trusilver  07:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I understand your position. However, perhaps it would be appropriate to not throw the word "spamming" around at people, that's a serious charge. In lieu of blocking my current user name, I would prefer to delete it. I am stunned by this whole thing, and I certainly don't want my website being associated with spamming of any kind.

Thanks.


 * When people here refer to "spam", they rarely mean it in the way you are thinking. Rather, they mean it in the context of "external link spamming" (see WP:SPAMMER). Which is someone who is posting links with an agenda other than building an encyclopedia. Often this is done unintentionally, but a good rule of thumb is that if you have a conflict of interest (see: WP:COI), then chances are you shouldn't be posting a link. Have a good evening. Trusilver  07:30, 25 April 2008 (UTC)