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[edit] WP:EL

While Scientific American is a well-respected source, your contributions would be viewed by some as promotional link-spamming. See WP:EL and WP:SPAM for more info. OhNoitsJamie Talk 17:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Please stop adding commercial links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. Femto 17:30, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
    • I disagree strongly with the above warnings. Links to relevant Sci Am articles are useful to Wikipedia and its readers, regardless of their source. -- SCZenz 17:58, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Advice: To avoid being perceived as link-spamming, you might want to link only the most strongly relevant SciAm articles, and limit yourself to one SciAm link per article you're adding references to. Right now there's considerable disagreement among other editors as to how to react to your actions. --Christopher Thomas 20:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Your adds to Sci. Consensus were reverted, they are almost spam adverts and detract from the objective nature of this subject. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dr. JJ (talk • contribs) on 20:32, 11 July 2006.


You apparently reacted and stopped, so personally I'm assuming it wasn't deliberate spamming but an SciAm employee who tried to be helpful in good faith. I'll leave the links to the usual editing process to judge their usefulness. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics#Massive insertion of Scientific American links for the relevant discussion and reasonings on these links. Femto 12:01, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proper reference formatting

Hi,

Aside from the somewhat questionable insertion of links (hotly debated at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics#Massive insertion of Scientific American links), may I also make a requrest: can you please convert your links to a preper reference format? That is,

  • Author, "[http://whatever.com/url/blah.html Title of the Article]", Journal Name, Volume Number (year) pp. pages.

Using one of the citation templates templates (see WP:Cite) would be even better. Just because a lot of articles on WP have a sloppy "external links" section doesn't mean you should add to the slop.

Actually, it would be best if you could create a template, and use that consistently. See for example, Template:Springer, Template:Mathworld and Template:Planetmathref, for references used for the Springer Encyclopedia of Mathematics, and etc. These give the references a nice uniform appearance, and provides a centralized way of managing the appearance and style of the citation. It would be excellent if you retroactively make this substitution in the articles that had been previously link-spammed. If you need help creating the template, plese contact me on my talk page. linas 18:46, 12 July 2006 (UTC)