Talk:Lost Horizons (Abney Park album)

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Inline links to MP3s

Are the links to MP3s on Lost Horizons (Abney Park album) acceptable? [1]

It's an interesting one - essentially, deep linking to the website of the artists.

For me, it fails on guideline 2 in Wikipedia:External_links#Important_points_to_remember, which says "External links should not normally be used in the body of an article. Instead, include appropriate external links in an "External links" section at the end of the article, and in the appropriate location within an infobox, if applicable." The utility of inline links in a track listing might, by some, be considered a special case, I suppose, but I'd prefer to stick to the guideline.

From a copyright perspective, Wikipedia:External links is fairly silent, though it does advocte deep linking (in the following context: "Sites that are only indirectly related to the article's subject: the link should be directly related to the subject of the article"). US law does not exactly look settled, according to Copyright aspects of hyperlinking and framing, though my reading of the Arriba Soft summation suggests that we should not be deep linking in this instance since we are allowing users to cherrypick the best of what would otherwise be a sales pitch from the band; and we're not providing anything radically new that is unavailable at the band site. --Tagishsimon (talk) 03:34, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know... I don't think it has any copyright problems due to the mp3s being allowed to listen to by the band. Although if you find problems with it then you should edit it. I doubt anybody would care and if they do they'll revert it, thus solving the problem. IzzyReal hunts idiots (talk) 05:39, 21 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]