Shiftedreality

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Spam links to Jaman

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, one or more of the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links and have been removed. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 22:10, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Jaman is a pay site, which is contrary to WP:EL. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 22:23, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Not true, you only need to pay to download movies, you don't need to pay to read the extra information that the link refers to. Jaman is as musch a pay site as the New York Times, where you need to pay extra for extra content. Jaman is about independent and foreign films, where there is usually very little information about the film available on the internet, that's why I was cross linking the films on wikipedia.

The chief purpose of Jaman, which is at the top of the page, is to rent and sell videos. Wikipedia:External links#Advertising and conflicts of interest directs to Wikipedia:Spam#External link spamming, which says:

Adding links to online free videos that promote a site or product is not allowed [see exception below]. Often these videos have been uploaded in violation of their copyright which adds an additional reason for not linking to them. A video is a spamming video if: ...

• It has links on the video page—the page that plays the video—that go to a commercial site or to another spamming video, even if it is only one link among many legitimate links. — [see exception below]

Exception: Generally, a video is not a spamming video if it is posted by the official site associated with the Wikipedia article. For example, if the Wikipedia article is on a movie named "xyzMovie" and the official site for the movie is "xyzMovie.com" then links or references to "xyzMovie.com" are legitimate for a video at a video sharing page—however, all other links at that video page still must also be legitimate. Some judgement is needed here. If the posted video just advertises a bunch of products associated with the movie, then it is a spamming video even though it is posted by the official site.

The reviews at Jaman are at the bottom of the page, way below the advertisements for Jaman's video rental and sales. I think it's hard to argue that its main purpose is providing movie reviews.

In any event, I'll stop removing the links. But please consider whether adding a link to Jaman to an article is informative or promotional. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 22:45, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

That's fair enough. Let me just say that none of the movies at Jaman are illegal, and the rights to distribute the movies were acquired through actual distribution companies like NFDC or Venevision, or straight from the film maker, in which case the movie page at Jaman serves as the official page to promote the film.

I didn't mean to suggest that the videos at Jaman weren't legal. That's just a quote from the guideline. — Malik Shabazz (Talk | contribs) 23:19, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, thanks anyway for all the useful information. I can see that there is a lot of abuse of wikipedia for spamming out there. I'll be more careful when I add external links in the future, with the wording of the external link, and I'll write better edit summaries. Shiftedreality 23:25, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

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Blocked

I have blocked you from editing, since a review of your contributions showed nothing other than promotion of Jaman and spamming jaman.com in articles. It is clear form the comments above that this has been brought to your attention before and you have chosen to continue, and even edit-war with people who removed the links. Guy (Help!) 19:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Cool, so how do I get unblocked? 08:40, 9 March 2008 (UTC)