Talk:The Legend of Zelda series/landofthelegend.net

Request for Comment on landofthelegend.net links in Zelda articles

Prior discussion:

1. User talk:Ian Moody#Landofthelegend.net
2. Talk:The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass#External links again
3. Talk:Mogitate Tingle no Barairo Rupee Land#Motion to lock this article from user Hyrule
4. Talk:The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess#Latest edits

Related prior discussion:

• Talk:The Legend of Zelda series#Zelda Revolution

22:58, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• The discussions speak for themselves, but for me it comes down to a few points.

1. As discussed, the main problem with citing one's own personal Web site is the potential for abuse. There is no reputation, no fact-checking, no editorial board, just the Web site owner citing himself. I would turn the other cheek, if it weren't for the fact that examples of such abuse have occurred with respect to LotL, specifically in the Zelda Revolution and Zelda Wii issues. Rumors were fabricated on the LotL, then listed as fact in the article with LotL as the citation. Both of those articles as well as the information in the main article had to be deleted.
2. The user adding the links has sometimes been informative and helpful, but more often has been vulgar and combative.
3. On more than one occassion it appears that the user adding the links has used sockpuppets in order to add supporting discussion or to get around 3RR violations. I can't really prove this, but the anonymous IP posts that show up supporting this user read suspiciously, and I'm not the only one catching it.

I realize the last two are more about the user than the Web site, but in practicality it is all the same issue.

The Yar 19:50, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems that this uncivil user is trying to link to his own website, with a few red herrings (e.g. [1], when the Nintendo site already says "2 player simultaneous"). If it is a continuing problem, consider filing a User RfC. Most of his edits seem to be related to the website, with a few speculative game mentions thrown in. A website could be an okay source if it were active, widely known and such, but this one looks like it could be just him and maybe some friends, despite the assertion that it has grown since May 2005 to be "the number one source of Zelda information around the world". —Centrx→talk • 02:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)