Talk:Madison, Virginia

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[edit] Suspicious Link

I have moved the following link from the article to here pending full removal:

• Events and festivals in Madison, VA

First the link leads to a registration page of some sort ... one that provides no relevant information about Madison, VA or any indication that registering would lead to any specific information on the topic. Also looking at the URL itself shows nothing that could be reasonably construed as a link to any specific content ... and certainly nothing that would link to "Events and Festivals" in this tiny little township.

Unless someone can make a compelling argument for keeping this link I plan to remove it entirely from this talk page as well. It basically looks like spam that's intended to generate registrations (personal name, address and other private data). (I'll also be searching the rest of wikipedia for other occurences of this). JimD 02:47, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

Follow up: After searching for other links to AssociatedContent I find that there are a number of links to valid content which is viewable without registration nor login. Most of the content I've seen there is of notably low quality --- but it doesn't appear to be outright spam. The link I removed fom this case seems to a user's error: failing to link to any particular article at the site. JimD 03:56, 27 June 2007 (UTC)