User talk:Xbruno

Amalfi Coast

Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for your question about external links. (It was on somebody else's talk page, but I don't think they read theirs, so no matter.) There are many obvious cases of spam (the one that you noticed me delete was a hotel booking agency); there are many borderline cases, and I personally wouldn't alter those; and there are many which have obvious merit. The official answer (here) seems to be "Give it a try. If anyone deletes it, be persuasive on the article talk page to get it accepted". Any help?--Old Moonraker 12:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Here's an example of where one editor "passed" six external links, but another came by and purged five of them. It's all very subjective. --Old Moonraker 06:29, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

November 2011

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Amalfi Coast. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Fourteen insertions that time! That's saturation bombing. Old Moonraker (talk) 09:16, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello, I sincerely believe the links I added are appropriate. Please take some time to follow the links and you will see the information provided (text and pictures) is absolutely relevant. If you deleted the links I can provide them. Moreover I personally contributed to this wiki in the beginning, providing the list of attractions for each town (I live in Amalfi) with information from the website in question. After that links to a similar website about the Amalfi coast were added to the information I provided. I can't see why the links I suggest as relevant now should be rejected. In my opinion either the links to both sites should be kept or the links to both sites should be removed.

Best regards Xbruno (talk) 09:40, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

I've looked at a few of them again—just at random, not all of them—but they still look like WP:SPAM.

The "similar website" defense is discussed here. Read WP:ELNO as well. If you still think that "Italia Lifestyle search engine Hotels and lifestyle in Italy Amalfi Coast" should go in, try WP:ELN or WP:RSN for second opinions.

--Old Moonraker (talk) 10:10, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I followed the links to the information you provided, but maybe there's some confusion, I suggested links to www.theamalficoastline.com (Amalfi coast travel guide) , not to "Italia Lifestyle search engine Hotels and lifestyle in Italy Amalfi Coast", I don't know this website. In the meantime there are 14 links to "Amalfi Coast Italy Travel and Leisure" to pages with plenty of advertising and banners on the Amalfi coast wiki in question. The pages I suggested don't contain banners/advertising. I'm sorry but I don't understand how my pages can look like wpspam while those other pages don't.

This is one of the links I suggested: http://www.theamalficoastline.com/amalfi/english/amalfi.html I don't see how it can be wp:spam. It only contains information and pictures of the Amalfi coast. No banners, no advertising whatsoever.

Xbruno (talk) 10:23, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

I see you have been WP:BOLD and fixed the WP:OTHERSTUFF problem! At the end of a WP:ELN discussion a 'bot comes around and tidies it away to an archive: other editors' comments should never be deleted. All the best. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:24, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Duly noted. Really sorry about that. All the best. Xbruno (talk) 10:14, 17 November 2011 (UTC)