User talk:ZootMutant

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I run a non-commercial, advertising-free website devoted to Old Time Radio. I publish a mixture of my own work and work submitted to me by fans. These include: plotlines, reviews, CD cover art, a comprehensive listing of radio adaptations of famous authors' work, top-10 lists, recommendations, and links to other websites. The site hosts over 2,100 plotlines, and 1,300 reviews. The 'Famous Authors on Radio' page cross-references 2,800 stories from over 900 different authors. The website has been online for 17 years. Obviously some of the material is higher quality than others.

Many of the Old Time Radio web pages at Wikipedia provide links back to the corresponding pages at my website, because my website provides quality material that is copyrighted.

I did not create these links. But I do maintain them.

Lately, those links have been systematically deleted by one (or perhaps several) individuals. The reason given is 'Low Quality URL'.

I have read the Wikipedia section on External links. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links#What_can_normally_be_linked It seems like the links to my website might fall in a grey area.

I am writing to ask if there is a community consensus on whether these links can remain? Or if, in the interest of improving Wikipedia, they should be removed. In other words, I can't tell if the links were justifiably deleted or whether they were the result of vandalism. (And if they were the result of vandalism, how I should proceed.)

Any help about how I should proceed to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

My home page: http://www.otrplotspot.com

An example Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Plus

The corresponding page that Wikipedia linked to: http://www.otrplotspot.com/2000Plus.html

The user who originally removed the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/197.41.9.94

Another example Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000X

The corresponding page that Wikipedia linked to: http://www.otrplotspot.com/2000x.html

The user who originally removed the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/197.41.157.234

ZootMutant (talk) 01:17, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi ZootMutant. Your best bet would be to take this to the external links noticeboard for discussion - you can pretty much just copy the text you posted above. This will allow for wider community input, and should give you, if not a definitive answer, at least a fairly firm one. Yunshui ^雲 _水 07:34, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]