User talk:Stradfan

March 2009
Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Themfromspace (talk) 11:34, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

And a voice in support...
Stradfan, you may want to look at Talk:Bugle_(instrument). The links you've been adding seem OK to me, for the most part, where the link goes to an actual instrument in the museum's collection. Thanks for your contributions, and I guess we'll wait and see what others have to say about this... __Just plain Bill (talk) 20:38, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Links to Met - my $.02
Almost any article (e.g., Flute or House or...) could be linked to a museum that has something in its collection that seems related (like a a few historical flutes). Unless there's a particularly specific and informative reason to link, it should be avoided - it's just clutter. Also, linking from very general articles (look at all the links editors try to insert in Musical instrument or Jazz, or even broader articles) is rarely helpful or relevant. Some of the stuff on the Met site looks useful — a link from the right (specific subject) article would be OK. But wholesale linking from broad articles to broad websites is not useful. And when a single editor's contributions consist entirely of adding links, that's not adding much value when compared to edits that add actual cited information to the articles themselves. - Special-T (talk) 14:22, 14 March 2009 (UTC)