Dirty Volvic

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Music review spam on dozens of pages

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. 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. --William Graham ^talk 15:46, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

You have admitted to working for the site[1] and that is a conflict of interest. Please read WP:COI and WP:EL.--William Graham ^talk 15:51, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

You indicated that the writers for that magazine are colleagues and either you work with them or they are your friends. This could be considered a conflict of interest for you to add links to their work. I don't know if you understand the structure of Wikipedia but the Village Pump is to discuss proposed policies. And furthermore, policies are not rules. I am sorry if you're taking the removal of the links personally, but rapid and multiple addition of external links to one website is usually identified as some manner of spamming, correct or not. If you have specific questions, I would suggest asking them at the discussion page for WP:EL or Wikiprojects like Wikipedia:WikiProject Music, Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums. --William Graham ^talk 04:19, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't know the exact guidlines for music reviews. I don't have many music articles on my radar and rarely have anything to do with review links. Like I said above, I would suggest taking your questions to the discussion pages of those pages.--William Graham ^talk 02:21, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Butting in

If I may interrupt, I haven't seen anyone make an assertion that print publications in question don't meet WP:RS, if introduced into the prose as citations - It's concerns about a potential WP:COI by a particular editor (yourself, Dirty Volvic) that prompted the reverts. That said, you'd probably stop running into this problem if you added new and relevant prose on the articles in question based on these sources, rather than simply dropping them into the External links sections. If you're curious about the syntax, check out WP:CITE. Copied at User talk:William Graham. Happy editing, MrZaius^talk 12:46, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Added note - You've asked why certain other publications don't get instantly deleted when added. Clash et al probably wouldn't be either, if done intermittently by editors without any potential conflict of interest. Regardless, expansions to external links aren't necessarily viewed as positive, given how spam-prone they can be. It is always much preferred to add new sources as sources with in-line citations. That said, the reason why many of these WP:EL to potentially citable sources exist is that when a band's article is created, new editors and editors working the Wikipedia:New pages patrol drop in potential reliable sources to the EL instead of adding in-line citations as a stopgap to prevent deletion under the Wikipedia:Notability guideline. Those other external links that you've mentioned should, likewise, be moved into the articles proper as cited sources as soon as possible. Hope this helps you understand the process and what motivates disinterested editors in populating the external links sections. MrZaius^talk 12:50, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Expanded welcome, October 2008

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There may be of interest here than above. MrZaius^talk 12:51, 4 October 2008 (UTC)