Perhaps but the unavoidable fact is that we currently have 26,000 links to amazon, many of them being sources for pictures, sources in articles or otherwise non-policy violating links. Even if they are violating policy, if we aren't removing them, the referral might as well be added. Also, there's Special:Booksearch for which one could add the referral id to amazon\Barnes and Noble links.
-Yonatan
On 5/19/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/05/07, Yonatan Horan yonatanh@gmail.com wrote:
· Amazon referral links – there are over 15,000 links on the English Wikipedia to amazon.com. Since they are already there, there's
no
reason not to append a referral to the link so the WMF gets some money
every
time someone buys something through that link. It's not extra
advertising or
anything of the sort as the amazon links are *already present*, this
would
just be better utilization of them for revenue purposes.
Most direct amazon.com links should be removed, anyway, so this may not be much help...
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