User talk:CelticWonder/Archives/2009/11

Rantmedia revert re myspace

Hi, You reverted my Myspace link deletion. I think the policy we want to refer to is WP:ELNO, and its subsidiary (which I never read before but you've brought it up) WP:ELOFFICIAL - and not WP:MYSPACE.

As for Rantmedia's Myspace page, I think it fails the part of WP:ELOFFICIAL where it is required that "The linked content primarily covers the area for which the subject of the article is notable". The myspace page is mostly a bunch of people saying hi - it's social networking, basically. There's no important content - certainly nothing that's not already covered on the rantmedia site. (Heck, the third most recent blog post on the myspace page is from 2006.) I'd suggest that the rantmedia websites are good content, and worth linking, while their myspace page is completely extraneous and should be deleted - Wikipedia articles aren't meant to promote social networking sites, only to (if unavoidable) refer to primary content on them.

Anyway, I won't start a revert war over it. It's just that from what I've seen, rules aside, we generally don't link to a MySpace page off a Wikipedia article, since they usually have no content that's important for the article. And if they do have important content, it's sometimes proof that the subject has had no coverage anywhere else and is thus non-notable. (This usually comes up with indie-rock bands.) AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 14:45, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

It's all good. ₪— CelticWonder (T·C) " 03:30, 6 November 2009 (UTC)