User talk:Famous Locations

Famous Locations

Hi T-Dot, Earlier today I put some external links to our Famous Locations reference information for Titanic, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. You labelled them spam and removed them! I have to take issue with you and ask you to please explain the basis of your decision. Our information is genuine and, like Wikipedia, we have contributors who work hard to provide this information for free to our many visitors. Famous Locations 12:23, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly. Please see Wikipedia's External Links guidelines, in particular the Links to avoid section. A website that you own or maintain, even if the guidelines above imply that it should be linked to. This is because of neutrality and point-of-view concerns; neutrality is an important objective at Wikipedia, and a difficult one. If it is relevant and informative, mention it on the talk page and let other — neutral — Wikipedia editors decide whether to add the link. Also: Links to search engine results are forbidden, which is effectively how your links worked. The Wikipedia is not the place to promote your web site. Thanks. --T-dot 14:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PS - that said (above), if you still wish to promote your web site and search engine, by posting "helpful links" to it in the corresponding Wikipedia articles (External Links sections), then please by all means feel free to post and discuss those links on the repective articles' "talk pages" (discussion tabs). Some editors and administrators may view your external links more favorably than others, and in general we work from consensus around here in the Wikipedia, so nobody should feel bullied. We always try to work together to come to agreeable compromise, just with a bias towards following, as best as we can, the letter and spirit of the Wiki rules (policies, guidelines, etc.). Thanks again. --T-dot 15:10, 13 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]