User talk:Blenz
External links on comedian pages
[edit]Hey man, thanks for the concerns. The reason that I removed the links is because they are spam links. Their primary focus is to promote a site and provide little content or context for the article, as they are not reliable sources. Also, Wikipedia is not a means of promotion, so just having links to promote the subject isn't valid. Nonetheless, thanks for voicing your concerns to me. There are far too many people who would just start an edit war over something like this. If you have any more questions or objections, just give me another shout on my talk page. Rwiggum (Talk/Contrib) 22:14, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
- Well, the issue is that since your site is admittedly used primarily as a promotional tool, then the only real use of the links is for promotion, which Wikipedia is not. I'm not putting down your site, in fact I think that it's great. However, the fact that you, the owner of the site, are putting up links to your site can easily be seen as self-promotion and a conflict of interest. I can understand if you inserted an in-text reference to an interview you did that provided information and sourced a statement made in an article, but as it stands the links are only there for promotional reasons. Again, thanks for voicing your concerns. Rwiggum (Talk/Contrib) 22:32, 24 September 2008 (UTC)