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Spam or not? I'm not the absolute authority

The guidelines for what we consider spam are at WP:SPAM; I thought this looked like linkspam: WP:SPAM#LINK. I'm sorry to say I still think it looks that way, but I'm not supreme authority on what is and is not spam: I may very well be mistaken. The guidelines themselves are not cut in stone either: "the specific links may be allowed under some circumstances", they state.

If you think the links belong on these pages, the clean way to get them there would be to present them on the articles' talk pages, Talk:Devanāgarī and Talk:Brahmic family (start a new section), and let the interested editors decide. (Editors with an interest in the article, that is, not just those with an interest in the product.)

Indeed, if you had but asked on the talk pages before including these links in the articles the first time, I would probably not have thought it spam. Given your apparent conflict of interest, it would probably be better if you just post on the talk pages and leave it to someone else to add it to the article.

In closing, I must thank you for taking this as constructively and calmly as you do: I fully appreciate it must be frustrating to be reverted with such a brief message ("looks like spam"). My only excuse is that among other concerns, I must look to efficiency in how I spend my time here, and most edits I revert are not worth wasting many words on. In hindsight, yours was one of the exceptions. I'm sorry I did not realize at the time. — the Sidhekin (talk) 17:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)