Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikilyrics
Only claim to notability is incessantly spamming empty wikilyrics pages to the external links sections of articles. --W(t) 22:56, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
- Delete, advertising, wikipedia is not a collection of external links. Megan1967 02:36, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Don't Delete, I run wikilyrics, made this article, and added several external links on wikipedia articles of artists. Let's discuss this here - I'm interested in knowing what is wrong with the situation. Maybe I do not fully understand wikipedia's rules. In my understanding, I see nothing wrong with linking artists to their pages on wikilyrics. Each artist category in wikilyrics actually links back to the respective page on wikipedia and I had thought the interwiki linking would make content/metadata easy for users to access. I only see this as helping both wikipedia and wikilyrics. Now - I see what you are saying about linking to categories which don't have much actual content on wikilyrics. In such cases, wikipedia is getting nothing out of the links while wikilyrics is getting wikipedia's visitors. Is there wikipedia policy about this somewhere? Could we say that wikipedia should only link to wikilyrics categories with at least, say...20 song lyrics pages? Give me some more information to work with. The goal was not to anger fellow wikipedians and spam the database. The goal was to create a wiki which provided free-content song lyrics with no ads and I thought mutual linkage between the sites would benefit everyone. Maybe I am wrong. If you wish, feel free to discuss this in my user talk as well. --Anthony5429 04:19, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- If you run wikilyrics, the article could be seen as "self-promotion", see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Megan1967 04:37, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, there are certain guidelines for linking, see Wikipedia:External links. I've posted that link to several anon users who were adding wikilyrics links and warned them but have always been ignored. Still, on the bright side, since you seem cooperative enough that probably means those anons were other people, which means wikilyrics must be taking off at least slightly. --W(t) 04:40, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
- Strongly Keep Wikilyrics is one of the most innovative and creative aspects I've seen here. It allows articles to be linked to lyrics, yet to keep up the theme of a Wikipedian style entry. The links are very useful and I am planning on linking lyrics in several articles. This is a great resource, and should not be deleted at all OmegaWikipedia 15:40, 28 May 2005 (UTC)