User talk:Sparkweb

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thanks.

Yes I know that KQED is public radio but those links are still inappropriate. Wikipedia is not a link farm. Phr (talk) 15:34, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Echo what Phr said. Please stop spamming Wikipedia with links to KQED. Thank you. --Durin 15:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Our apologies. Our intent was not to advertise but merely to bolster the Wikipedia content with links to audio and video where we thought would be appropriate. Our opinion is that seeing these artists at work or hearing authors read their own work out loud adds value to the entry and gives a better feel for the personality of the artists than can be gleened from just reading descriptions. In addition, we have placed these links in the section named "External Links" and not into the body of the text, which we did not think was inappropriate given our mission to inform and educate the public about artists and various art forms. Perhaps, we could rephrase these sentences to provide more decription of the content. What do you suggest? Thanks Sparkweb 20:59, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Please read our external link policy WP:EL. If you want to contribute some audio or video to Wikipedia, that would be fantastic; you have to release it under a free license, and then you can upload it to Wikimedia Commons.  Then they'd be on-wiki content instead of external links, and would be very welcome as such.  But the external links don't belong here and I'd appreciate if you could remove them (I haven't gotten around to it).  Phr (talk) 08:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Unfortunately, due to rights issues, we are not able to release the materials to the Wikimedia Commons. Sparkweb 19:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

http://spam.kqed.org

 * Spam sock accounts

Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. You are, however, encouraged to add appropriate content to the encyclopedia. If you feel the material in question should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see Business' FAQ. For more details about what constitutes a conflict of interest, please see Conflict of Interest. --Hu12 23:53, 11 July 2007 (UTC)