User talk:128.131.226.19

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[edit] Your comments at Talk:Céilidh

Wikipedia is not a place to advertise, is is an ad-free encyclopedia. Bands should only be listed if they meet the notability criteria, and linked to if they are a non-commercial site that somehow adds content to the Wikipedia article. If you are listing small bands with no notable recordings, this doesn not meet notability requirements. It looks to me what you are doing is linkspam. Please familiarize yourself with these Wikipedia policies before continuing to add links to articles. --Kathryn NicDhàna 23:01, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

My apologies, I can see this is a hot topic and what I was suggesting was near heresy. I withdraw the suggestion.
On the other hand I think referring to the Open Directory Project listings of bands could still be useful and not contrary to the spirit. For example, from external links, I get 'A link to a web directory category may be deemed appropriate by those contributing to an article. Preference should be give to open directories' and as a practical measure, it might help to be able to refer people (who want to add links) to the ODP directory.
Having made the original change [[1]] and had it rolled out, I'll leave it to someone else to put back if they think it is notable (hope I'm doing this right, I feel I'm too close to the subject now :-) -- 128.131.226.19 08:31, 5 November 2006 (UTC)