Talk:Cultural Experiences Abroad

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[edit] Excessive external links

This article reads like an extension of the gowithcea.com homepage. It seems a bit promotional and I am tempted to add the advert tag. But at this point I am more focused on the external links.

I count 8 gowithcea.com external links which is excessive and it needs to be pruned. I also question the wisdom of so many gowithcea.com links being used as a reference to itself. It would be more appropriate if the gowithcea.com references were replaced with links to reliable third party sources (this should be easy to do since it seems like anyone will print a press release these days.)

Another issue I have is with all the external links in the "Professional Associations" section. I think it is great that CEA is a member of all these organizations but why should this information be in a Wikipedia article? (Requestion 18:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC))

I think the question should be Is this company notable? Its external links don't establish that. Its nothing more than spam. Montco 19:22, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree that the notability of this company is questionable (the guideline is here WP:N). The article's creator is also behaving in a spammy fashion and a second spam warning has been added. I wonder if a web PR company was hired to create this page? (Requestion 19:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC))

Major external link pruning explanation. I removed the "Professional Associations" external links section because this sort of information isn't encyclopedic (see WP:NOT). I also removed all of the gowithcea.com self references because you can't use yourself as a reference (see WP:RS and WP:SELFPUB). (Requestion 16:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC))