Encyclopedia Research

February 2023

Hello, I'm Toohool. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added to Gambling in the United States have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Toohool (talk) 20:13, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello Toohool, I can insure you that the external link is not inappropriate for an encyclopedia, actually It represents valuable and informal content with no commercial intention. Maybe you should read the article :) Encyclopedia Research (talk) 22:24, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Please see the policy on reliable sources. A random web site is not an acceptable source just because it contains some noteworthy fact. Reliable sources generally are things like newspapers, journals, government sites, etc. The site you linked is purely a spam site that is chock full of affiliate marketing links. Toohool (talk) 15:23, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Speeking of affiliate links:

after 3 seconds, I find these unreliable websites, also full of affiliate links and with commercial intention liked in REFERNCES down below.

You should delete all of them if you want to follow the offical wikipedia guidelines.

Here are the links:

https://www.delottery.com/Sports-Lottery

https://www.njonlinegambling.com/tropicana-opens-atlantic-city-sportsbook/

https://www.usaonlinegambling.com/texas/

@Toohool Encyclopedia Research (talk) 15:41, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

Hello, Encyclopaedia Research. If you think those are not reliable sources (very likely, I haven't looked) then remove them. WP:SOFIXIT. Wikipedia has thousands and thousands of seriously substandard articles, mostly perpetrated in the days before we were so careful about standards. Nowadays, editors are often more careful, so when people add unacceptable material they get reverted. Dealing with substandard material that is already there is no more Toohool's responsibility than yours. Please also see WP:other stuff exists. ColinFine (talk) 16:16, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

In Fact can you check which moderator reverted my editing of this link here which I erased number 75 in refernces on gambling us: https://www.usaonlinegambling.com/texas/

So If its not @Toohool s responsibility to erase them, why did anybody just reverted this spam link back into the references.

I find it a little contradicory for an encyclopedia article this size that gets updated probably every week, to just say " it happend we will leave it there" reminds me of Nuremberg trials.

Respectfully I do understand your capacity is very limited.

Also you talk about "in the days before " but these spam links are brand new, why are mods approving spam links nowadays then ? Encyclopedia Research (talk) 16:50, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

I refer you again to Other stuff exists. All editors on Wikipedia are volunteers, who spend their time on what they choose. It is as much, and as little, my responsibility to fix those links as it is your responsibility. You have shown that you have some concern about them. I am not interested.

There are no "moderators".

There are administrators who have access to certain tools, but they do not control the contents of articles. In the sense that you mean it, every single editor is a "moderator" - including you and me. ColinFine (talk) 18:28, 25 February 2023 (UTC)

And if you disagree with another editor's contributions, WP:BRD explains how to proceed. ColinFine (talk) 18:29, 25 February 2023 (UTC)