Talk:NZ On Screen

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New approach to linking NZ On Screen to featured subjects[edit]

There seems to be a history of links from subjects' Wikipedia pages to the NZ On Screen website getting removed as spam. Rather than continue to add links, I'd like to propose a !Category:Subjects of NZ On Screen which could be added to subjects Wikipedia pages without raising spam flags but still allow users to navigate to NZ On Screen and the content. Does that sound like a sane move? Stuartyeates (talk) 04:58, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a bad idea. It is certainly not suitable for article pages, as it is not a defining characteristic of the article subject, ie it would not be appropriate to say in text "Howard Morrison is famous because....he is on NZ On Screen" (I don't know if he actually has such a page). It may be possible for talk pages to have such a category, but I am wary of the idea.-gadfium 09:34, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To expand slightly; a category cannot link to the relevant subpage of the website. There is nothing that the category can do, that a direct link to the site, either in the external links section, or as a reference, does better. While a category provides a list of all pages it is included in, Special:LinkSearch enables finding all pages containing any given external link. The objection to links to NZ On Screen being added to articles appears to be based primarily on their having been added by an editor who has done little else, and who has a connection with the website. For such links to be added, preferably as references and in conjunction with other reliable sources and improvements to the article, by an editor who is clearly not a Single-purpose account, would be not just acceptable but commendable. However, doing this en masse might be seen as a violation of WP:POINT.-gadfium 18:34, 25 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]