[WikiEN-l] Re: External links and self-linking to my site (NSK)

Wed Jan 12 17:37:40 UTC 2005

>Yes, I can agree with this, and I think what I am doing is fair and useful 
>to
>the reader. And hey, your post was very insightful.
>
>I considered the situation and found that Wikipedia needs an External Link
>Proposal Procedure (ELPP).
>
>Here is how ELPP could work:
>- The person who wants to include an external link to his site on Wikipedia
>will not be allowed to do that, but he should use the ELPP system. Let's 
>name
>this person "Link Provider".
>- The first step of the ELPP process is: The Link Provider places the 
>proposed
>link on his user page.
>- The second step: The Link Provider completes a form or writes to the 
>mailing
>list (it could even be a special mailing list) or on the village pump or on
>the talk page of the affected article saying that he proposes the inclusion
>of a link to his site. He gives his userpage.
>- Admins and Wikipedians go to his userpage and check the link.
>- The Link Provider also explains on his userpage why the link is 
>informative
>and where he likes it to be included (which Wikipedia article).
>- Admins and Wikipedians vote and discuss whether to include the link
>- If approved, the link will be inserted to the relevant article by an 
>admin
>or Wikipedian, but not by the Link Provider.
>
>Allowing anybody to insert links in Wikipedia is like asking for spam. ELPP
>solves this problem by creating a formal process for the submission of new
>external links.

I think it unlikely that any editor would submit themselves to this 
incredibly bureaucratic procedure, or that any admins would bother 
administering it.

Here's a simpler idea: don't post links to your own website.

And if you really think your website is that great, post a link to it on the 
Talk: page, and suggest to any interested readers that they might want to 
post it in the article, if their estimation of the website matches your own.

Jay.