The comment Taxman used when removing them the first time was that they were "SEO links", which I presume means "Search Engine Optimization" -- i.e., he's (allegedly) trying to piggyback his page's own pagerank onto Wikipedia's high pagerank.
I'm not sure there's any reason why people can't do that on their user pages, anyway, especially when it is something like "the writings of so and so" and not "BUY CANADIAN PHARMA HERE" or something like that. But anyway, that's what I'm betting the reasoning was, right or wrong.
FF
On 9/28/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Have you asked Taxman and Jmabel why they removed the links and blocked you? They probably know their own reasoning best.
--Mgm
On 9/26/05, Brandon Hansen buhansen@gmail.com wrote:
I've been involved in a dispute with Taxman and others about posting any links to articles on the OmniNerd domain. I have been blocked twice concerning the issue and finally agreed with Taxman to follow his OmniNerd gag order, meaning I can't even suggest an OmniNerd article be listed in a WP article as an external link - no matter how the suggestion is worded.
After my block expired, I made some significant edits to WP pages (not OmniNerd related) and also decided to put some effort into my user page (Uriah923). I noticed that other users - even an admin, Jmabel - included links to writings they had online. I did the same. Taxman then erased the links and blocked me again because the articles I've written are on OmniNerd.
If Taxman and others don't want OmniNerd mentioned in WP articles because it is not "worthy", so be it. But, preventing me from listing the articles I've written on my own user page is going too far. The articles listed there do not have to be worthy of an encyclopedia article reference, or even of an external link - they are just listed because I wrote them. Having the links on my page might affect the PR of the articles, but if this alone is enough to erase them then any external link on anyone else's user page needs to be deleted also - and we all know that's just silly.
So, I hope someone who reads this will be able to look at the case and recognize the abuse. My recent edits (since the gag-order agreement) have been constructive and I plan on doing many more of them. I see nothing wrong with having links to external articles I've personally written on my user page as I do so.
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