User talk:65.184.195.190

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Dead or Alive 4

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did in Dead or Alive 4. 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. -- ReyBrujo 06:05, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Link deletions

gatewalker.com is not notable enough compared with metacritic.com or gamebrink.com. Alexa ranking for gatewalker is over 5m, while gamebrink has a ranking of around 25,000, and metacritic, 4,000. -- ReyBrujo 15:06, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Feel free to request Wikimedia a refund of your donation because you were not able to "buy" yourself a link to your site. For the matter on topic, unluckily it has been accepted that determined sites, usually those that have articles in Wikipedia like IGN, GameSpot, GameSpy, Gamasutra, and even Joystiq and Kotaku, are considered good sites to link at. As you can imagine, there are millions of "smaller independant sites", and while Wikipedia offers "free information", we do not have the obligation of offering free advertising. Ideally, external links should be added to a link repository like the Open Directory, not here. Or, if that is not possible, linking to a meta site (a site that holds links to others, like GameRankings, RottenTomatoes or Metacritic). However, we do accept a small amount for reader's convenience. In the case of DAX2, I have removed the review to GameBrink as it can be found through the meta site. I have a few suggestions:
  • If the article already has external links, discuss in its talk page to see if your link can be accepted
  • If you want to add a link to many articles, discuss first in the WikiProject Computer and video games, otherwise it will be treated as spam.
  • New and very small sites, unfortunately, are not accepted. As I said, there are well over millions of these small sites, and allowing one would enforce all of them to try to be put here.
  • Try adding your link to an Open Directory category. In example, Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 at the Open Directory Project is a good place. I am adding this Dmoz link to the article, new external links should be put there instead of Wikipedia to prevent spamming.
Good luck! -- ReyBrujo 16:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)