User talk:Leesw

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Please do not repost previously deleted articles, as they'll just get deleted again as a repost. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 17:33, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

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Batman Begins, Shrek, The Incredibles, Friday Night Lights, and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow don't seem to benefit from having a Christian review. Please review WP:SPAM and WP:LINKS. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 02:53, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

You said, "Batman Begins, Shrek, The Incredibles, Friday Night Lights, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow don't seem to benefit from having a Christian review."

It would benefit Christians. Many Christians want to know if the movie is suitable for a Christian audience or if it's something they want to take their children to see. Please respond. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leesw (talk • contribs) 12:37, December 13, 2006

First of all, you obviously have a vested interest in promoting this particular site, which qualifies the site as spam. Secondly, Wikipedia is not a repository of links. Information that is added should be beneficial to all, not just Christians. Links like yours need to be appropriated by neutral editors to avoid a conflict of interest. If you really still feel that your links should belong on these film articles, visit the talk pages and ask on them if it's appropriate. I'm pretty sure that you'd get a similar answer to mine, though. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 17:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Erik, by saying that the content should be beneficial to all, not just Christians, I'm afraid you are missing what I'm trying to say. If I were asking that all the links listed ONLY be Christian, I would be, as you said, wanting links there that are not beneficial to all. But having one Christian review/viewpoint in the list for visitors who happen to be Christian is hardly spam. It's simply a different critical option among the others. On many of the topics here there are "critical views" and "controversy" information and links. That information is not beneficial to all or common of all beliefs. The reason that information is there is because it is a different view on the topic and allowing visitors the option of viewing it contributes to Wikipedia just as does having a Christian movie review among the secular ones. That gives it balance. I wish you would reconsider your position on this. Thanks. -Lee

I agree with you that a Christian perspective can be contributive, but I don't think these perspectives are always necessary for films like the ones I reverted. You mentioned in your initial message to me that there was a review for The Nativity Story. If you noticed, I didn't touch that. The review is relevant to the context of the film. However, when it comes to movies like Batman Begins and such, the Christian perspective doesn't really expand on critical understanding of these films. I am sure there are already sites that host movie reviews written by Christians for Christians. I have no problem with these reviews being included with relevant content on Wikipedia, but I have to say that what you've tried to add doesn't tie in so well. I'm afraid that I won't consider, and if you still feel strongly about including these reviews, start a discussion on the films' talk pages to see what kind of answers you'll get. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 05:19, 14 December 2006 (UTC)