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.