User talk:Thereeldeal
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Happy editing! -Mysekurity(have you seen this?) 07:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External links
All of your contributions thus far have been to insert links to movie reviews by Mark Sells of the Oregon Herald. Do you have a connection to Sells or to the Herald? android79 19:08, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Yes. I am Mark. My contributions have been reviews and interviews with cast and crew.
- Then you may be interested in reading Wikipedia:External links#What should not be linked to, specifically #2. There's also a general prohibition against self-promotion or what some call "vanity" on Wikipedia. I don't think we could call it vanity in this case, since you appear to be a respected film critic and not just some guy with a website. It's also apparent to me that these are good-faith additions – you're not just trying to spam Wikipedia. However, I hope you understand that this is a bit of a conflict of interest, and that other editors may have a more negative reaction than I did. I'm going to ask around and see what the general consensus is on external links to film reviews.
- Oh, and you can automatically sign your posts on talk pages like this one by typing ~~~~. android79 14:31, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I'll take that back. You have been spamming us: Special:Contributions/65.218.133.150. Don't do this again. android79 17:54, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
So, it's okay for film critics like Roger Ebert and A.O. Scott to post links to their reviews through Wikipedia but not for other critics? Please see "double standard."
- No, that's not okay, either. If you've got proof that either Ebert or Scott are actually doing this, I'm all ears. android79 19:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Here are a few examples: Walk_the_line, Good_Night,_And_Good_Luck, Casablanca_(film), etc.
- You are missing the point. There's no evidence that Roger Ebert himself logged on to Wikipedia and added those links, and it's quite absurd to think that he did. For the first two movies, the links to Ebert's reviews were added by User:4.224.222.244 [1] and User:Mb1000 [2]. If you want to make the case that either of these two users is actually Ebert in disguise, go right ahead. As for Casablanca, Ebert's audio commentary from the DVD is used extensively as a source for the article. It would be hard to argue that a link to his review of that film does not belong there, even if he happened to do it himself. android79 15:58, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
