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Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 18:41, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

Hi Anon111, I noticed that quite a few of your edits to article pages have been to add external links to either http://five-books.com or http://thebrowser.com/books. Although all constructive contributions to the encyclopedia are welcome, using it as a platform for advertising or promotion is prohibited by policy and the persistent addition of external links in the hope to drive traffic may cause your website to be added to our blacklist. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions/comments regarding this matter on my talk page. Regards, Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 15:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for your reply, the note you left on my talk page seems to be written as if you were writing it on behalf of a company, organization or other person(s). Are you affiliated with FiveBooks or The Browser? Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 15:21, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I'm affiliated with FiveBooks. May I make notes and edit if I'm affiliated with FiveBooks? Contributions that I make are all relevant, constructive and verifiable - I'm not using wikipedia as a platform for advertising or promotion for FiveBooks. thank you. (talk)- 16:38, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes of course by all means edit Wikipedia but considering you are affiliated with FiveBooks you should avoid adding any more external links to FiveBooks or The Browser due to a potential conflict of interest. See Wikipedia:Conflict of interest for more information. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 18:43, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jeffrey, thank you for your reply. For example, if FiveBooks has an interview with Aleks Krotovski, it would be relevant to add this link to Krotovski's page. Am I not allowed to add this link to her page even if these links would add encyclopedic value to these webpages and will help to expand wikipedia? Who could put links to these interview then?

Even if it looks like this (please see below), with no link to five-books.com, it would be COI anyway?

Woud be any of the options below suitable to edit for me, even when interviewees recommend to put a link to their wiki-page?

Interview with Aleks Krotoski on The World Wide Web in FiveBooks, March 2010

or

Interview with Aleks Krotoski on The World Wide Web , in FiveBooks, March 2010

or

Interview with Aleks Krotoski on The World Wide Web ,March 2010

thank you.

Yes that's true, they do offer some degree of encyclopedic value but you should still avoid adding these links yourself. However, you can place a {{Request edit}} on the talk page to suggest the edit be made to the article in question by another editor. Please don't directly add any more external links to either http://five-books.com or http://thebrowser.com/books. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 02:15, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Jeffrey, thank you for your explicit and prompt guidance and explanations. I will not add any external links to www.five-books anymore. For placing a request edit could you please kindly advise on my actions below:

For example, If I would like to to place a request edit to Lev Grossman external links, would it be ok if I go to: Talk:Lev Grossman and leave a message there:

Edit request: May you add this external link please: *Interview with Lev Grossman on The World Wide Web in FiveBooks,March 2010 Anon111 (talk) 11:15, 18 March 2010 (UTC)Anon111[reply]

That's right, just add the tag to any articles talk page and make your request below the tag, however, the "in FiveBooks March 2010" isn't necessary in an external links section. Cheers, Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 13:19, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please make sure to include with any talk page posts that you make {{Request edit}} exactly as it is written here, this will add your request to a list of other edits that have been requested and will allow your request to be fulfilled quicker. I have added {{Request edit}} above your post on the Talk:Lev Grossman page for you. Jeffrey Mall (talk • contribs) - 17:53, 18 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, I see. thank you for this tip. Will do this. Anon111 (talk) 10:53, 19 March 2010 (UTC)Anon111[reply]

Actually those links are not eligible for inclusion, for this reason: according to guideline number 5 of Wikipedia:ELNO#Links_normally_to_be_avoided: "Links to web pages that primarily exist to sell products or services, or to web pages with objectionable amounts of advertising. For example, the mobile phone article does not link to web pages that mostly promote or advertise cell-phone products or services." --JokerXtreme (talk) 16:10, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dear JokerXtreme, FiveBooks website primarily exists as an educational resource, that invites experts to recommend top books in their area. Also interviews at FiveBooks are as relevant to experts as interviews at other websites or magazines etc .. and I believe these links would add encyclopedic value to Wikipedia- people who are interested in Rebecca Goldstein will be interested to read an interview about her favourite book. Moreover, amazon.com sells the recommended books, not FiveBooks. Hope, this would help to change your opinion. thank you, Anon111 (talk)Anon111

Pardon me, it looked like a bookstore last time I checked. Still, I think that guidelines 4 and 13 of WP:ELNO do apply here. And I'm not sure if FiveBooks is notable enough to have an article. Anyway, I'm not sure about this, there probably needs to be a wider discussion about this somewhere where more people can opine on this. --JokerXtreme (talk) 21:15, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I made a post in the external links noticeboard about this, here: Wikipedia:External_links/Noticeboard#FiveBooks. We can discuss there. --JokerXtreme (talk) 22:41, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for deletion nomination of FiveBooks

I have nominated FiveBooks, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FiveBooks. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. RL0919 (talk) 23:43, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (File:Five-books-logo.png)

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Hey Melesse, Thanks for the message, but the article that I created in which this image was used was deleted, so actually there is no point in keeping it tbh.Anon111 (talk) 13:27, 15 April 2010 (UTC)Anon111[reply]

External link requests

Hi Anon111, I'm just dropping by to give you the notice that I've put your frequent adding of link requests up for discussion at Wikipedia:External_links/Noticeboard#FiveBooks.2C_again (2nd time, I know, sorry, but the circumstances have changed) jonkerz ♠ 02:16, 15 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

May 2011

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. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. 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. Thank you. Ckatz^chat _spy 17:35, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It appears clear that you are primarily interested in adding links to a specific series of websites, which is contrary to our accepted practices. Furthermore, contribution histories strongly suggest that you are the same person behind User:Julia.terentyeva, an account that was used exclusively to add links to "Thebrowser" and which ceased contributing only a few days before you began. If you have a different explanation, please post it, but note that Wikipedia strongly discourages spamming and single-purpose accounts. We would welcome constructive edits that are not related to sites you are connected with. --Ckatz^chat _spy 17:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]