Talk:Eden and After

Latest comment: 9 years ago by Testbed in topic Link to film?

Link to film? edit

I added a link to the film under "external links":-

This was deleted on the grounds of WP:NOTLINK. However the guidance provided is of the form Wikipedia articles are not merely collections of and it is already clear that this article is not a collection of links. Therefore I will revert the edit. Testbed (talk) 18:18, 26 July 2014 (UTC)Reply

Read it again. And WP:ELNO. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 07:58, 27 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. I recognise that Lugnuts is a frequent contributor to the W project, whereas I am not. However nowhere on WP:NOTLINK is there any indication that one can't add a link to a page which is not "merely collections of" links etc. So although Lugnuts says - perhaps rather more hurriedly than I would have done in the circumstances - that I should "Read it again", reading it again does not yield a justification for removing the link.
Lugnuts also suggests WP:ELNO could be helpful in understanding the removal of the link. WP:ELNO offers 19 different categories one should not link to (e.g. "Any site that misleads the reader"). I have just gone through all 19 and not one refers to adding a YouTube link of a video which adds useful material to the article.
It may well be that W does not allow one to add YouTube links. However as this is forbidden by neither WP:NOTLINK nor WP:ELNO I will revert again and wait for comments. Perhaps an editor who does not use an obscenity on their Talk page (see User talk:Lugnuts) might care to chip in.
Testbed (talk) 10:38, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
It's not in the public domain, so there are copyright issues. You'll need to read up and that too. And see this to lower your ignorance. And read WP:BRD. That means you were bold, it was reverted, now discuss it. Not just reinstate your edit and think that's OK. Thanks. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 12:50, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply
Your rv is becoming clearer now. You will notice that my objection was to the reason given (WP:NOTLINK) and I made it clear that this was why I reverted: WP:NOTLINK does not provide any guidance. Had you for example offered WP:VIDEOLINK instead - an article which deals with the specific issue - things woud be different.
I recognise that the onus is on me to demonstrate that the YouTube material is out of copyright, difficult I admit as in this case I rely on private information (WP:NOR) and the matter is anyway somewhat uncertainAs you seemed invested in the subject of the film I hoped you might have access to the same sources, clearly not.
Incidentally I said you were a more experienced editor than I, which is not the same as your view that I am ignorant.
Testbed (talk) 13:36, 28 July 2014 (UTC)Reply