Talk:Lonely Girl

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[edit] Link spam

I added a link to the lyrics for this song, which appears to be a very common external link in most other song pages. Why was this reverted? I wouldn't consider it spam at all, for the reason above. Furthermore there are other articles with links I would consider more worthy of this tag. I also cleaned up the other links that were also present, the YouTube link is redundant since the music video is on the official website. Scott 01:20, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

The external links policy says "...editors are restricted from linking to the following, without exception...Sites that violate the copyrights of others". Lyric sites never have the permission of the copyright owners, and so fall squarely within this restriction. If you find other links to lyric cites (for copyrighted songs) in wikipedia, remove them in accordance with this policy. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 13:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

OK thanks for clearing that up. There are many, many pages with links to lyrics sites on Wikipedia. Specifically, the following searches of a few of the popular lyrics sites bring up many examples that can be deleted by someone with a bit mroe time on their hands: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. BTW is there a better place to conduct this discussion?

WP:VP/P, I guess. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 00:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)