Talk:Crystal red shrimp
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[edit] Breeding?
What does They reproduce at the age of 4.5 till 5 months ... mean? RJFJR 21:18, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Commercial Links
I've noticed people are hiding comments within the page code itself, rather than here on the discussion page. I'm a little unclear on why. If there's something to be talked about it belongs here on talk, not buried in a comment within the HTML.
I've also just spent a while researching the linked sites. My evaluation of their commercial level:
- -planetinverts.com - High. Every single page on the site has a prominent link to the store (right after "home" and "forums". There is also the matter of the site owner's actions. He put a "Commercial Links" section in every shrimp article to prominently display a link to his store. He reverts or re-spams articles where this is deleted. He puts his website links at the top of the external link list (to quote the Wikipedia:Spam page: Adding a link to the top of an unordered list. This is an A-number-1, red-flag, hot-button spam sign. It suggests that you want people to look at your link FIRST FIRST FIRST! You wouldn't butt in at the head of a queue; don't put your link first.). His contributed photographs all contain his website URL, and he does not release them properly.
- -silaneshrimp.com - Low. Nothing offered for sale anywhere that I could find. However, I don't think this link contributes anything useful. The "articles" pages are under construction. There are some very nice pictures of CRS, but not really anything that expands so much on this article that it needs a link.
- -shrimpfanatics.com - Medium. They have a prominent "online store" link, but it's blank. If they're selling anything, I can't find it. However, the presence of that link implies that they intend to do so. It has quite a bit of information, though, so it should be kept, just watched.
- -shrimpnow.com - Low. Appears to be strictly a forum and gallery. Another questionable link, however, because it doesn't expand on the article, and a Wikipedia article is not meant to be an index to every website (or even every good website) covering a specific topic.
- -theshrimpfarm.com - Medium. They have a store, but you have to find it from small text links at the bottoms of web pages, or off the site map. There isn't even a link to it from the navigation menu. They're a good example of a site with valuable information that keeps the commercial side so low-key it may be considered acceptable.
In addition to the commercial nature of the sites we're linking to, we really have to ask "Is this link necessary?" Otherwise, if we link to every shrimp resource on the Web, there will be miles of them, my own included. For each link, we really need to ask ourselves if the information we're linking to cannot somehow be brought into the article, and if it can't, is it so essential that the article would be significantly weaker without the link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldwalker (talk • contribs) 11:09, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
