User talk:Shimon.shrem

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Hi all, Yesterday I added external links to 3 movie pages Out of Sight, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. The links were to anyclip.com (http://www.anyclip.com/movies/out-of-sight, http://www.anyclip.com/movies/o-brother-where-art-thou and http://www.anyclip.com/movies/intolerable-cruelty), the web page contains scenes from the movies (each movie has its own scenes page). Anyclip.com has license to show the scenes and it is open for everyone freely. A few hours after the links were removed from the pages.

"An article about a book, a musical score, or some other media should link to a site hosting a copy of the work ..", so my question is what can be more relevant to a movie page than the movie itself? Thanks, Shimon.shrem (talk) 19:13, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, one of the reasons would be that you added video of the films, and because Wikipedia isn't a collection of links, they were removed. Please see External links. I hope this helps, SwisterTwister   talk  21:20, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * So if I'll indicate that Flash Video software or a web browser supporting H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is necessary to see the content, it would be OK? Shimon.shrem (talk) 11:18, 3 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I give a similar answer: Wikipedia is not a directory. mabdul 23:58, 2 July 2011 (UTC)


 * First, sorry for my ignorance. I checked all the points on Wikipedia is not a directory and I don't think it violates any of them. Can you, please, be more specific? Shimon.shrem (talk) 11:21, 3 July 2011 (UTC)


 * The policy is not really so clear as other policies: it does indeed violates our policies. maybe it is clearer in WP:EL: Wikipedia is not a link-collection nor a directory (like dmoz). mabdul 11:43, 3 July 2011 (UTC)