Talk:Ming Dynasty Tombs

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[edit] =External links removed

I removed the following links from the article.

• The Ming Tombs Photo gallery and guide
• Shisan Ling Ming Tombs Introduction
• The Ming Tombs Online Sources - A Bibliography
• Introduction to The Forbidden City by DrBen(restored Link)
• Preview of the Menu to The Virtual Forbidden City currently under construction by DrBen.Net
• Chong Zhen's Story at the Jingshan Park (soon more photos & info !:
• Nearby Badaling Great Wall of China

These links violate WP:EL in a number of ways and do not contribute to the improvement of the article. While potentially done in good faith, the drben.net links are clearly promotion in nature (violation of WP:EL. The information they provide cannot meet WP:RS. The fact that multiple links to the same site were posted suggest a pattern of linkspamming. The kinabaloo.com link has also been added to China-related articles in a systematic fashion suggesting that these links are intended to be promotional.

To those who want to link there images to these travel pages: External links tend to improve the notariety/visibility/ad-sense revenue/Google pagerank/etc. of the linked website, but not the content of the article. If you have pictures you want people to see, why not properly license them, upload them to Wikimedia, and link to them in the article? If you have a website you want to link, make sure it comes from reliable source WP:RS and stands up to the external link guidelines WP:EL. If it is your website you want to link, there is a "conflict of interest" problem WP:COI and this material should be posted to the article talk page where other editors can decide if it is worth linking. Keep in mind, Wikipedia is not a link directory WP:NOT. Dmoz is a link directory and submitting your site there and linking the Dmoz category to the article is a potential solution to external link problems. Posting several links to a single website (even across articles) or repeatedly posting is a form of spam. Nposs 19:48, 24 January 2007 (UTC)