User talk:Stormstrike

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January 2011

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Port Chester, New York. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Because Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. TNXMan 12:25, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Stop Vandalizing the Port Chester, NY page and DO NOT threaten other users

Wikipedia's policy is clear on allowing links to media sources, and in fact Wikipedia depends on media sources as part of its criteria for attributing information in articles.

What you term "spam" is links to legitimate local media that are institutions in the local community. As you are not a member of the local community, and Wikipedia's rules are clear in this regard, repeatedly removing these links is tantamount to vandalism. You have not given a legitimate reason to remove the links other than your arbitrary determination that they're "spam."

In addition, I am reporting you for threatening to remove editing access. This is exactly the sort of behavior that gives Wikipedia a bad name and discourages people from contributing.

Stormstrike (talk)

I suggest you read our guidelines on external links. What you created is what we term a "linkfarm"; and Tnxman was doing exactly the right thing. Your accusations of vandalism and "threatening" are absurd and incivil. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:48, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Stop Vandalizing the Port Chester, NY page and DO NOT threaten other users

Wikipedia's policy is clear on allowing links to media sources, and in fact Wikipedia depends on media sources as part of its criteria for attributing information in articles.

What you term "spam" is links to legitimate local media that are institutions in the local community. As you are not a member of the local community, and Wikipedia's rules are clear in this regard, repeatedly removing these links is tantamount to vandalism. You have not given a legitimate reason to remove the links other than your arbitrary determination that they're "spam."

In addition, I am reporting you for threatening to remove editing access. This is exactly the sort of behavior that gives Wikipedia a bad name and discourages people from contributing.

Stormstrike (talk)

I suggest you read our guidelines on external links. What you created is what we term a "linkfarm"; and Tnxman was doing exactly the right thing. Your accusations of vandalism and "threatening" are absurd and incivil. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:48, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Links to legitimate media are NOT linkfarming

Your own policy states: "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues,[2] amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks), or other reasons."

These sites are neutral and accurate. Your own editors depend on them for attribution in articles. In addition, the links were to LOCAL media sources that cover the town in the article.

Your contention is absurd and uncivil -- casual users are tired of e-tyrants like yourself arbitrarily deciding what can and cannot be linked.

It's obvious you have a conflict of interest, because a simple Google search will turn up endless complaints about Tnxman307's dictatorial edits. In addition, you completely ignored Tnxman307's threat to ban another user from editing.

At a time when Wikipedia is asking for donations, you should not be acting like little tyrants.

You have no legitimate argument for why these links should not appear on the page and why readers should be deprived of information on the article.

This kind of behavior is what dissuades people from participating in Wikipedia.

Stormstrike (talk)

"A general site that has information about a variety of subjects should usually not be linked to from an article on a more specific subject." --Orange Mike | Talk 16:22, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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