User talk:Stageagent

Welcome!

Hello, Stageagent, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Moreschi 11:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

O.k, right, I just thought that some of the links above might be useful. Welcome to Wikipedia! I rather suspect that I wouldn't quite have written in the way I did if I'd known that you actually run StageAgent.com. Apologies if I was little brusque, and I'm useless when it comes to this copyright stuff. Sorry. The opera links - well, I didn't see the point of a link to a mirror, but I did leave a few in where your website has information we don't. I didn't actuallly delete too many of the Broadway links - generally it seemed that Wikipedia doesn't have vocal ranges when it comes to musicals, but your website does. If you feel that any links that I deleted for the musicals shouldn't have been, then by all means put them back in, and I won't revert or anything unsociable like that. I take your points, and I'm sorry if I was in error. Anyway, happy editing! Some of the WikiProject links I stuck on your IP's talk page might be useful. Cheers, Moreschi 11:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC) (oh, and BTW my talk page is exactly the place to contact me, but please sign with 4 tildes, as it says in the welcome. Enjoy!)[reply]

Re: Linkspam[edit]

Hello - thanks for the message. I did not delete the ELs because I "don't like" them. It's not a question of "like" or "don't like" or "love" or "hate." The External links and Spam policies are pretty clear to me. A few ELs, perhaps at musical theatre and play and opera, would probably be okay. 35 such links, at every article about every musical? Not so much.

More importantly, there's an official guideline about linking to your own site, and it's there because if every registered Wikipedia user started adding ELs pointing to their own site, or even just to his or her favorite site, the credibility of the encyclopedia would vanish.

Try this hypothetical: The New York Times decides to do yet another article on Wikipedia's veracity, and this time their gaze falls on our coverage of theatre. The reporter digs through the articles and the edit history of Oklahoma! and Annie and others, sees the ELs to stageagent.com, and finds that User:Stageagent put them in. What do you think the headline of the story would be? I promise it won't be "Wikipedia thoroughly covers theatre". Instead, it's going to be something like "Wikipedians drive Internet traffic to pet sites", it's going to prominently mention this little episode somewhere above the fold, and once again the encyclopedia will be subjected to stories about the supposedly foul intentions of Wikignomes and admins alike, registered or anonymous.

That's why I deleted the ELs to stageagent.com. I'm not one of those editors who get into editing conflicts and revert wars, so rest assured you won't find me deleting them again. My objection is on the record, and if others disagree with me, I'm perfectly fine with it. I think your site is useful, but I _don't_ think that 30+ links to it from Wikipedia is appropriate. It's not personal at all, and I hope you understand that. Thanks again for the message. KrakatoaKatie 05:24, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]