User talk:62.194.12.240

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[edit] External link

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. 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. --Erik (talk/contrib) @ 19:33, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I can see from the above and your user-contribution history that you've been busy doing this all day. And that you've been warned once.

But I'll assume good faith here.

In any event, we generally have a low tolerance for people posting links to their own movie review sites in the external-links section of articles, because anyone can set up such a site or make such blog posts. If we let you do it, everyone will do it and we will soon reach the spam event horizon. The article will become little more than predominantly a link farm.

I have let that link above remain because a) I thought it was sort of an interesting take and b) I wanted to see if it would attract any other "read my review" type links.

I can see now that it will. I will delete it too.

Thank you for bringing me some clarity of vision on this matter. I know it wasn't your intention, but you did it anyway. Daniel Case 19:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I didn't do all that reverting; someone else did. Yes, we could put a notice below the edit window, but if we did it would be another step toward instruction creep. Daniel Case 19:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about that ... most of us have been here long enough that we have a very low tolerance for spammers (most of whom rarely plead that kind of innocence and know full well what they're doing, and never try to defend themselves). We forget it's not always immediately evident to people what is and is not OK for Wikipedia.

In the interests of not biting the newcomers and being civil, I will strike that remark through and apologize there as well. Daniel Case 20:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

I understand that you were uninformed about this. External links aren't high priority on Wikipedia articles, so that's why it takes some digging to find out Wikipedia's policy about external links and other aspects of a typical Wikipedia article. In the future, use the Help page to learn about something you may not fully understand. I was in your shoes once; just take the time to look up something or even ask on an article's talk page before making some kind of edit. Hope you'll stick to the community and find another way to contribute! --Erik (talk/contrib) @ 20:16, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, a small heads-up... when you write a comment on an article's talk page or a user talk page, "sign" it by typing four tildes (~) at the end of it. It'll insert your name and the date that you wrote it. --Erik (talk/contrib) @ 20:22, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No link spam allowed!!!!

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Mission: Impossible III. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. 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. Will (Talk - contribs) 21:14, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Is there an echo in here?? 62.194.12.240 22:02, 1 November 2006 (UTC)