User talk:Mhudson3
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Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Maxamegalon2000 01:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
Please stop adding commercial or personal-website links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. --Maxamegalon2000 04:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Your Edits
You have made a total of ten edits to articles, all of them nothing but the addition of links to a single commercial website. In general, the external links added to articles are those that editors who actually contribute to articles have found to be appropriate links. Perhaps if you made some constructive edits, or were more willing to discuss your links at the articles' talk pages, you would be more successful.
Also, it appears that the links you keep adding are to reviews and interviews, rather than "fan sites" or other single-topic websites. I would say, and I think many others would agree, that a single article about a subject should not be added as an external link. If they are used as a source, then they must be cited, and a link provided, but random articles do not deserve links. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a web directory.
Of course, your additions are not random. This is far from a clearcut situation, but I think your edits and your username provide the basis for a reasonable suspicion that you may in fact be "Marc Hudson, Nerd of the Universe," in which case I should point you to again to WP:SPAM, which discusses the addition of links to one's own website. In general, it is probably best to discuss the addition of external links at articles' talk pages.
As for the Onion article at "Weird Al" Yankovic, its inclusion is a bit of a meta joke, but the article was also very important in shaping the article on Yankovic when it was released. Even though it was written by a fictional character in a parody newspaper, the information the article contained was pretty much all true, and Wikipedians love nothing more than to silence critics. After it was published, a number of editors independently verified all of the information that the editorial said was missing, and improved our article. I would argue that the Onion link deserves inclusion for those reasons. --Maxamegalon2000 14:39, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
- Your questions are very valid, and I apologize if my previous comments were a bit harsh. The level of discussion you are willing to engage in is much higher than what I have ever seen in this situation. Regarding fallout.kryptonsite.com, I notice that as of this writing, the site has only been listed for about seven hours; if the people who frequent the Jericho article think it's spam, they'll probably remove it within a day or so. I did notice, though, that the addition of the site is the user's only edit; it is very possible that this user added the link because they are a fan of the series and found the site useful and informative. You make no such claim, in part because of the number of articles you added links to, and because you readily admit that you making edits under the instruction of your editor. I think most Wikipedians will agree that the difference is significant.
- As for comparing your site with TV.com and TVSquad.com, my argument would start with a mention that both TV.com and TV Squad are notable enough to have their own articles, and end with a look at the Alexa Internet rankings of the sites in question:
- Just to be clear, I strongly recommend you not personally create an article for a website you are affiliated with.
- My advice would be to discuss your site at the talk pages of articles you'd like to add a link to. Start a new topic, tell everyone who you are, and explain why you think your site should be added to the external links. I would think the articles you'd be most interested in adding links to will by design be those who have the most traffic, and therefore probably editors. If your site offers unique and relevent content, I'm sure editors will be willing to add your site. Again, I offer my sincere thanks to you for being willing to discuss this; most users who add links to a bunch of articles just stop and come back later or we end up having to block them. --Maxamegalon2000 06:00, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
