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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 19/05/07, Yonatan Horan <yonatanh(a)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...
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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