Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Some kind soul wishes to link to us because we have an excellent collection of posters. I've removed the personal details, but I think the legal ramifications of this are pretty clear.
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Important Information about your site Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:11:16 -0600 From: (NAME REMOVED) Reply-To: Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects helpdesk-l@Wikimedia.org To: Helpdesk-l helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org
Hello my name is (NAME REMOVED). I am seeking out possible link partners that our visitors would be interesting in visiting. I've found your website to be a very good fit for our visitors. I have already gone ahead and added your link to our website at (WEBSITE REMOVED)
I am contacting you to see if its ok to have done so, Also, I would like to ask if you mind linking back to us? If so, please use the linking details below and send me the location of our link on your website.
Here is our linking details: Tilte: Where Can I Buy Posters? Description: Where Can I Buy Posters website gives you the chance to choose from 300,000 Posters & Prints, Designer-Framed Prints, Canvas Transfers and More...100% Guaranteed!
We've got several PR6 and 7 websites, so we expect this site to become atleast a PR5 within 1 month and we eventually become a 6 or 7 in 2-3 months.
I hope this can be a way for us to benefit our visitors with excellent content. Hope to hear from you soon.
That looks like link exchange spam to me. Some of the OTRS queues get it every day. I very much doubt the sender knew anything more about Wikipedia's image use policy than he knew about the thousands of other email addresses he spammed. Besides, Wikipedia has long since passed the point of being impressed by PR 6 or 7 ;)
-- Tim Starling