Fluidcreativity

Regarding external links

Hi! Please see Wikipedia is not a link farm. Nor is Wikipedia a vehicle for advertising. External links may (and will) be trimmed down unless they are extremely notable. Please see also Wikipedia:External links. Thanks! Weregerbil 15:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

== "Nor is Wikipedia a vehicle for advertising" - unless you are a multi national organisation of course! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fluidcreativity (talk • contribs)

Actually it is official Wikpedia policy that Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising for companies of any size. Please see Wikipedia policy on notability and what Wikipedia is not. WP:SOFTWARE lists proposed notability criteria for software and WP:CORP policy for companies. If you want to list a company on a Yellow Pages type service google should be able to help find some of those. I think Yahoo! Directory is like that though I am not absolutely certain. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is an encyclopedia, not the Yellow Pages or an advertising medium. Weregerbil 16:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

It may be policy but it happens and ive seen it on a page that you removed one of my inclusions from. There are plenty of links and pages on this 'encyclopedia' that are advertising. I presume these are allowed because they have enough 'google hits' or the links lead to a spammy page filled with text on that particular subject. I know all about yellow pages, google, google directory and yahoo directory and daily i discover another so called 'ethical' organisation with different rules depending on how much commercial clout it has. It couldnt possibly be down to oversight with such vigilant moderators. Fluidcreativity

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1. Please do not remove Articles for deletion notices from articles or remove other people's comments in Articles for deletion pages. The notices and comments are needed to establish community consensus about the status of an article, and removing them is considered vandalism. If you oppose the deletion of an article, you may comment at the respective page instead. Thank you. --Benon 13:15, 7 April 2006 (UTC)