Khmermusic

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Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. {{#if:||Again, welcome! Paxse 15:59, 16 June 2007

Adding blog links to articles

Sour s'dey Khmermusic, it's great to have you here on Wikipedia. We need more editors working on articles about Cambodia. There's a bit of a problem with the links to the Oudam music blog that you have been adding to articles. Wikipedia has a policy about not allowing Spam and about the types of external links that should be added to Wikipedia articles. So unfortunately I've removed all the Oudam links for now. I realise that the Cambodia article has a lot of strange links right now - but it's on the list for clean-up and they will be gone soon. It would be good if you could try some other edits apart from adding Oudam links to articles - otherwise it looks as though you are mostly here to promote another website. Please feel free to leave me a message here or on my talk page if you have any questions. Have a great day and hope to see you 'round. Paxse 13:53, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Rebuttal

Oudam.com is a well respected resource for Cambodian news, culture, music and society. The site boasts over 30,000 visitors and some 250,000 pageviews per month. There are many Cambodian websites that belong in the external links section that have been removed. Some of the ones that are left are far less useful than www.oudam.com and some of the other sites that have been removed. Your recent clean-up is rather arbitrary and does not add to the value of the Wikipedia Cambodia article.

I absolutely agree. I enjoy Oudam myself and I'm one of those 30k pageviews each month. I also enjoy Khmer music (as long as it's old/decent) and I've been visiting the site for a while. Unfortunately, Wikipedia has some very strict policies about linking. Have a read of - Wikipedia:External Links - linking to blogs generally is out, even good ones like Oudam. So the clean out (which was waaaay overdue) was just to bring the article in line with this policy. I didn't actually get around to cleaning the Cambodia links, another editor beat me to it :) I see you've been adding music articles - that's excellent there are so many missing Khmer articles. Shame it was deleted. Cheers, Paxse 17:10, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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Adding blog links to articles III

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Angkor Wat. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Paxse 14:03, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Adding blog links to articles IV

Once again, I see that you are adding links to the Oudam.com blog in various articles after they were removed several times. As I have pointed out, this is not acceptable either as external links to an article or by quoting the blog owner's reaction to Angkor Wat failing to make the list of New Seven Wonders of the World. The text and reference you added from a wire service article is acceptable and is an entirely appropriate source for Cambodian reaction. This text and reference has been retained and the text on Oudam.com has been removed. I would really suggest that you stop adding links to Oudam.com and work on some other content. Cheers, Paxse 08:32, 12 July 2007 (UTC)