User talk:Watchrapid

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Hi, I noted you added a link to what I find to be a spamming video. You may disagree with this. For more details check out my comments at these talk pages:

• See my comments at: user talk:wikiLeni — [this user is not me]
• See my comments at: User talk:76.169.138.26

WikiLen 00:35, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:The Secret (2006 film). It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 01:14, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding links to videos

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. —WikiLen 02:19, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits at External links were all to youTube videos with user, thesecretsgrprogram listed as the user responsible for posting each of these videos. At that user's page it lists the site for the Seminar product, "Science of Getting Rich" as the website for this youTube user—a commercial site. This is in violation of Wikipedia policy. —WikiLen 02:19, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

See: External link spamming

This is your last warning.
The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 15:19, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Link to theSecret.tv at "Release date" section

I am puzzled by your deletion of the link to www.theSecret.tv—now reverted (deletion done without giving a reason in the Edit Summary). You deleted that same link on a previous occasion and Jossi reverted that edit. A reason for your deletion seems necessary since it can be construed from your edits—falsely perhaps—that you have a relationship with a commercial site and theSecret.tv site would be in competition to such a site. —WikiLen 06:26, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing the link. I DO NOT have a connection with thesecretprograms and added the links without realizing they were promoting a 2000 dollar program. The reasoning for removing one of the four links to the official link was that it was inputed in the wrong format. Thank you for fixing it. I promise to be more conscious about changes.

The real question is do you have a connection with any commercial site related to the film or book? — not just "thesecretprograms" (There is a site, thesecretprogram.com). Having such a connection with any commercial site would be OK — would not block you from editing Wikipedia. See guidance at, Advertising and conflicts of interest and Conflict of interest. —WikiLen 07:44, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

External links at The Secret (2006 film)

I notice you add a lot of links. The latest to,

ABC7News (KGO-TV San Francisco): "The Secret to Success and Happiness"

is to a extremely short piece of minor import on Marie Diamond with a link to her site. If we included a link to every TV news report at every local news station across the country, we would be inundated with links. The Wikipedia policy on this:

Links should be kept to a minimum. A lack of external links, or a small number of external links is not a reason to add external links.

Keep looking for the good links, links that could ultimately become sources (references) for the article. —WikiLen 03:59, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Please do not remove content from Wikipedia, as you did to Talk:The Secret (2006 film). It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. ≈ Watchrapid ≈ (talk) 05:55, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Possibly you are experimenting here. If you wanted to really warn a person you would put this warning at their talk page. Also, to reply or comment on something, it is the custom to indent your comment below the text you are replying to. —WikiLen 10:28, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Check on my reasons, at the film's talk page, for deleting the link to ABC7News. The link will be deleted soon—for the second time—should no convincing reason(s) be supplied for keeping it. —WikiLen 10:42, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

News reports on "secret" teachers

I moved what you wrote to its own sub-section at the end of the talk page. More people will see it there. Also, you will find my reply to your issues there. Additionally, this move of your comments will allow us to archive the section it was moved from without loosing these latest comments of yours. Regards, —WikiLen 04:04, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Copyright violation — "The Secret" on Arizona's Family News

For a second time, you have added this link, "The Secret" on Arizona's Family News" (TV). You did this after it had been noted that this video was a possible copyright violation. Having researched it further myself, it appears certain that it is in violation. The station provides videos at its site, such as this one on The Secret—not using YouTube. The video is surrounded by ads. They obviously use videos as a revenue stream for the station and don't post videos to YouTube — this is the only video on YouTube (or Google Video) of their news. Additionally, the user who posted the YouTube video is not Arizona's Family News. It is, "behindthesecret" — smells like another spammer to me. —WikiLen 02:41, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Larry King videos are SPAM

See External link spamming for Wikipedia policy on linking to videos.

A link to jamesray.com is on the Google page for the video in three places. Also, the start of the video has in big letters, "Create harmonic wealth in all areas of your life... visit jamesray.com". All told, this has four reasons to be called spam.

Also, the same screen says "Posted with permission on jamesray.com. If you obtained this video from another source, it may be in violation of CNN's exclusive copyright." You 'obtained' this from Google.com.

—WikiLen 09:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)