Talk:Paul O. Miles

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I'm moving this discussion here as suggested...

You recently deleted an external link to a podcast from the Paul O. Miles page. Why? It was of the author reading a recent story of his. The reason give the the removal was "Removed commercial link spam IAW with Wikipedia Policy". How is this different than external links to other Miles' short stories? Thank you for your time. --Rick Klaw 15:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

You may be unaware of the prohibition against linking to commercial sites from Wikipedia. This may give you some guidance. If after reading Wikipedia's guidance you still feel that link doesn't violate Wikipedia's policy, feel free to post your arguments on the Article's Discussion page for consensus. 76.170.239.56 21:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I looked over the policy and from what I can gather posting a link to this podcast violates no Wikipedia rules. Yes, RevolutionSF is a commercial site, but it does not solicit money from their users. If no links are allowed to any commercial sites, then all links to scifi.com, Locus, sfsite, and a host of other informative sites would have to be removed. The other two external links on the Paul O. Miles page are his text stories on RevolutionSF. How are these ok but not the podcast from the same site? I've linked from a lot of articles to several of the sites mentioned above without nary a comment. Why the change now? --Rick Klaw 23:46, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since there has been no response or ensuing discussion, I have restored the external link. --Rick Klaw 19:32, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]