DJ-City

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December 2008

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Freestyle rap. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Apparition¹¹|^Complaints/Mistakes 01:17, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

This is the only warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Freestyle rap, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. -RoBoTam^ice 03:25, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

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Freestyle rap

You are probably right that the DVD shouldn't be mentioned, and I have removed it. For the website, unless you can provide some reliable sources as to why that website is notable and relevant enough, then there is no reason for it to be in the article. It does not satisfy WP:EL, and, at this point in time, it appears that your only interest in Wikipedia has been to advertise this site. Wikipedia is not a place to promote or advertise. If you can provide sources to the notability, then please post them on the talk page and discuss it and gather a consenus instead of reinserting it. If you continue to add this link without discussion, then odds are that you will be blocked from editing. Thank you. Apparition¹¹|^Complaints/Mistakes 00:44, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thank you for the information. I'm not sure where I can reply to you. Is this the place to reply? So, to answer your questions and address your points:

biggies the best ever —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.73.211.140 (talk) 02:28, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

1. Hip-hop battling is as old as hip-hop itself and should definitely be mentioned as an important foundation of hip-hop. However, the wikipedia section under "freestyle rap" and "battles" I edited reads: "As hip-hop evolved in the early 80s MCs gained their fame through live battles with other MCs. Freestyle battles can take place anywhere: street corners, on stage at a concert, or in school.", is incomplete because it leaves out "online battling". With the growth of Web 2.0 and social media, hip hop battling has significantly moved online. I feel it's important to mention this to the readers, otherwise the entry appears grossly outdated. Furthermore, I feel it's valuable to give them a strong example of where and how online battling is taking place, so I mentioned Goldmic.com because it pioneered online battling in 2001 with it's USPTO Patent Pending online battling system and it is the #1 online hip hop battling website. Since 2001, there have been over 200,000 battles and 1.5 million votes from members from 20+ countries.

2. This is my first Wikipedia.org contribution because it's the first time I feel confident in contributing to a topic on wikipedia.org. I have a great deal of experience and knowledge about online battling and thought I should contribute. I have also been reading the basketball, soccer and fishing entries and hope to perhaps contribute if I feel it adds to wikipedia.org' readers experience. However, this edit was the first time I felt comfortable in contributing.

Best regards

Your best bet for discussion on the matter would be at the article's talk page, where there will be more editors who are knowledgeable watching and able to be involved. I'm not exactly an expert on freestyle rap or battles, but I will try to reply to the best of my ability. There should be very little or no resistance to adding a part about online battling as long as it is backed up by reliable sources and not include the example website. If you added a statement about it with a source and without the website right now, it probably wouldn't be reverted. As for the example website, I doubt that it would go over very well. It would need to be well sourced as to how that particular site is notable, and even then, would need to gain a consensus that it should be included in the article. I hope this helps a little. If you have any more questions, you can ask them here and I would be glad to try and answer, but for questions specifically related to the article, its talk page will be where you will be able to really discuss the matter. Cheers! Apparition^{11 Complaints}/Mistakes 19:11, 1 January 2009 (UTC)