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Hi,
I'd like to discuss with you why you feel that my Matusow blog is affiliate spam. That site has over 40 content rich, relevant articles on Mike Matusow. Yes I have affiliate programs on the blog page, so do Poker Babes and the Card Player.com links that you have allowed. Somehow I'm to be singled out?
I'd like to hear your rationale behind this before I take the next step to ensure that my blog is included in the links section.
You may contact me at twascom@gmail.com
Regards,
Todd
As you will have appreciated from the edit history, I decided on several different occasions to expand the page; each time I intended to remove the stub tag, and each time I forgot. Thanks, then, for taking care of that; that was surely a page about which WP:AWB would have remarked, Long stub, although we might have been on our way to producing the largest article tagged as a stub (when Stubsensor last updated Wikipedia:Computer help desk/wpfsck, the largest identified "long stub" was only 30 KB. In any event, thanks for cleaning up after me... :) Joe 05:29, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I reverted the blurb about Tank Abbott back to my version. But you had a point that maybe people who aren't familiar with pro wrestling terms would know what jobbing meant, so I linked "jobbed" to the Wikipedia entry for jobbing. My rationale for this is that wording it as "Abbott lost to Arquette" makes it sound like a legit competition, like he actually was defeated. Pro Wrestling is scripted entertainment, and I feel it should reflect that. Thanks. Greg 00:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
They seem to be planted by a reverse fan. Bona Fides 21:07, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Hello, this is Ivan Trembow of MMAWeekly. I noticed that you (or someone else around the same timeframe) posted links to my recent article about the UFC's 2006 pay-per-view buyrates. Even if you weren't the one who added that link, this message still applies to you because you appear to have a semi-regular role in maintaining the UFC event pages on Wikipedia.
The only problem with the links to the PPV article is that they pointed to the article on MMAWeekly, and the links on MMAWeekly expire after a certain number of weeks. Everything that I write about mixed martial arts is published on both MMAWeekly and on my own personal web site. So, I have replaced the links to the PPV article on MMAWeekly with links to the same article on my own site. It is the same exact article from the same exact author (me), but at a permanent URL that won't expire.
On some other UFC event pages, I have also added other links to specific articles that I have written, in cases where I felt it was appropriate. For example, on the pages for the live TV events that the UFC has held, I added information about the TV ratings for those events and linked to the full articles if people want more information.
The same goes for the Fighter Salaries for every UFC event starting in April 2005, although I wasn't sure where to put those particular links because they do not necessarily fall under the "Sources" section for any given UFC event page on Wikipedia, but they do contain relevant information that a very large percentage of MMA fans are interested in reading. You may have a better idea of where to put those links on any given "UFC event page," so please feel free to move them to a different spot on the page if you feel that there's a more appropriate spot.
Also, please note that I made the vast majority of these changes without using my account, which I just created in the last few hours, so the majority of my edits will show up as just being from the IP address 69.175.88.28
Any feedback/comments/questions on any of the changes I've made would be much appreciated.
ALSO: I wanted to ask you this since you are a regular Wikipedia contributor and probably know the answer. When adding relevant information that is fully relevant to a page, such as the TV ratings for a UFC TV event, or the fighter salaries for a UFC PPV event (or TV event), what is the proper way of doing so? Would it be to include the information and a link (with just the "1" or "2" external link notation) in the body of the page along with the rest of the description? Or would it be to include something in the "External Links" section of the page that links to an article with the relevant information? Or is it both? The info on TV ratings and fighter salaries is very relevant information, but I'm not 100% sure how to properly implement it.
Hi, this is Ivan Trembow and I just wanted to ask what the general timeframe is for questions posed on the WikiProjects pages. So far, there hasn't been any objections to changing the specified links to my own site, but then again, there have only been three people who have responded (not counting myself). I'm not sure how this works... at what point is it decided that a consensus has been reached and the links are okay to be changed back (or kept the same if a consensus is reached in the other direction)? How exactly does the process work now that a couple of days have gone by? --Ivantrembow 07:58, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I am posting this message on both the WikiProject page and oyour Talk page because I wasn't sure whether I should post it on one or the other, or both.
I wanted to let you know that in addition changing the link URLs that we previously discussed, I also added links in the articles (I believe they would be called inline links, but I'm not 100% sure on that because I'm still fairly new to this) to the UFC attendance, live gate, and fighter salary information. I added the salary breakdowns for all the events that I have, and in doing so I noticed that many events (especially those in the UFC 45 to UFC 49 range) did not have any attendance information whatsoever, so I added the attendance information and created inline links to the Nevada State Athletic Commission web site on those pages.
Also, from the period of UFC 51 and on, there were a few pages that had incorrect attendance numbers, which appeared to be the numbers that Zuffa announced. Those numbers are often exaggerated, and the legit numbers are released by the athletic commissions. In any case where I changed anything attendance-related, I made sure to include an inline link to the NSAC web site. Actually, even on most of the pages, where the attendance was correct, I still added inline links to the NSAC web site on the pages that didn't have them before. Also, a few of the pages had the info in the infobox on the right-side column, but not in the body text as well, so in those cases I added a brief sentence to the body text with the attendance and live gate figures.
The total combination of this is that I think the pages have a lot more business information in the body text, between the attendance numbers, live gate figures, fighter payrolls, and TV ratings for the Spike TV shows, and all of the aforementioned things have inline links to the appropriate places for more information.
The only thing now is that I could have added the attendance and fighter payroll info for UFC 43 and UFC 44, but there have been no event pages created for those events. I don't know anywhere near enough about Wikipedia to be able to create new pages and list the results and all of that, but if you or anyone else does that stuff at some point, then I could add in the fighter payroll and attendance info for those events. As for UFC 40, UFC 41, and UFC 42, it might be good to create little pages for those events, but the only info I have for those events is the attendance and live gate for UFC 40. --Ivantrembow 10:41, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
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Thanks for sharing. I'll give your thoughts every bit of attention they deserve. Otto4711 16:51, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Please stop auto reverting the poker superstars page before reading it. I'm trying to add things about the poker game I play from the show and you are reverting it before even reading what I have put in. I'm trying to learn what is and what is not exceptable to wiki and think I have it right now. Dave635 01:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Hi, You've reverted a link Ive added to arbitrage betting about sport bonus arbitraging, [[1]]. Probably because you consider it spamming? It is my opinion that the link is a usefull source of information about this subject since the 2 remaining links only consider regular sports arbitraging. So maybe you could reconsider removing the link?
Bestregards starkodder.
Hi, please don't revert my contribution to the Jeff Gordon article, I've gone over this with an admin, changed the weasel words, and am now changing it to be correct. It clearly states that it is a rumor, perhaps you made a mistake? =)--Kyle 02:51, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
The link I added was very useful and is an actual ezboard message board with over 500 members. Registration and posting there is free. I do not understand how this could be considered SPAM. You can check out the link yourself and see that it is legitimate. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.140.202.200 (talk • contribs) .
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OK, I'm not saying that, by definition, this type of activity is not link spamming, but answer this if you can. Why were hundreds of edits, reviewed by hundreds of new page patrollers, allowed to stand untouched for over a week? Surely this is consensus that the editor was contributing positively and not spamming! LittleOldMe 12:22, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Mixed martial arts is now taking suggestions for the new MMA article improvement drive! Please add your input to decide what our first collaboration should be. VegaDark 21:34, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
If you erase it again, you have to leave the link up to doesrtmattsuckatlife.blogspot.com. That was the agreement with the previous moderator. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.94.5.96 (talk) 02:14, 22 December 2006 (UTC).
The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar | ||
I award you this barnstar for removing lots of spam links from chess articles. Merry Christmas! Ioannes Pragensis 11:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC) |
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