User talk:Reptar369

March 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a collection 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, please discuss it on the before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. dissolve talk  01:22, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a collection 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 attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Since Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by some search engines, including Google. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. dissolve talk  01:55, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I have had several external links removed (as noted above), but I don't understand why. After reading the guidelines, I feel I have followed them just fine. It was not done in a "spamming" fashion, and was just linking some musicians back to their pages at an independent music site I frequent. Many of the wiki pages still contain external links to Amazon, iTunes, and MySpace pages, so why were mine removed?
 * YouTube links are generally to copyvios, so we don't do that. The other links look like they're to similar sites and/or sales, which we also don't do. // roux   21:14, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

This still makes no sense...there are links to stores like Amazon, Rhapsody, iTunes, etc. on many of the musician's pages I visit. I was simply giving users a reference where to find the music of some of my favorite artists - many were the same site because it's a site that I frequent most (being an artist myself). Is it somehow not against policy if the link benefits a giant corporate store like Amazon?

I also had links to artist reviews pulled down...these weren't to the same site or for a site that sells. Sales seems irrelevant anyways since a musician's website and/or MySpace page (in addition to the Amazon-type pages previously mentioned) can be used to sell and those links are allowed...so why not a musician's community where sales are allowed as well?


 * WP:GRIEF --  Chzz  ►  21:48, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

What part of "multiple unaffiliated websites = not spam" is hard to figure out? One part of your "clever" 5-stage is right - why is it necessary to censor certain pages but not others? ...ah yes, and that's a great way to make it all okay - by calling anybody that has a problem with it a spammer and a whiner. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Reptar369 (talk • contribs) 14:56, March 11, 2009


 * It's a store, it doesn't matter whether or not you have any financial interest in them selling more records. We don't write articles about the artists to sell more of their work. Just because other store links are on here doesn't mean they're ok, it just means we haven't gotten around to removing them yet (see WP:OTHERSTUFF). -Optigan13 (talk) 23:25, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

This is my problem...several of the links were not to stores, but rather to reviews on various sites. They were removed, while the links to Amazon and iTunes on the same wiki page remain. And the reasoning I keep getting is that I'm spamming to a store! So not only are the big stores remaining active, buy my links to non-commercial sites are being removed. It seems arbitrary and ridiculous.


 * Sorry but I don't see any recent link additions by you that haven't included one to the tarnius music site, which is a store. I saw an amazon link on Brian Dewan, and have removed it, it shouldn't have been there, but that doesn't make your additions ok. If you spot any links to online stores (giant corporate ones or independent ones) feel free to remove them. -Optigan13 (talk) 05:00, 12 March 2009 (UTC)