WP:COI is mainly about article namespace. It's perfectly acceptable for
someone to post links to their own website on their userpage if they are a
useful and otherwise non-spamming contributor to the project. When they're
writing articles about themselves, any such links or articles can be removed
per MFD and new prod rules for userpages.
Mgm
On 12/14/06, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com <
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
A wrote
I have noticed an emerging trend for linkspammers
to spam their sites on
article talk pages, user pages and user talk pages, especially after
failing
to get their spam placed in an article itself.
[[WP:SPAM]] does not have
a
clearly formulated policy on this from what I can
see.
It will all fall under [[Wikipedia:Conflict of interest]], though. At the
level of generalities, if posted links are serving purposes that do not
chime with Wikipedia's, one can deduce a likely COI.
That doesn't do more than give some sort of framework, of course.
Charles
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