I think we all know the definition of spam ... no need to play coy here. How many reviews are there of Product X? What is it about your review, among perhaps thousands of them, that makes it outstanding enough to deserve one of a small handful of slots under the external links section? Honestly, if yours is one of the best reviews on the web covering Product X, someone else will have already listed it there. At Wikipedia the commonly accepted community guidelines are that you shouldn't add links promoting yourself. You can add them to the talk page, let the community decide by consensus or vote, and let someone else add your link if it's worthy and truly helpful. The fact that it was removed suggests it wasn't helpful or worthy; basically, it's not encyclopedic. Let's take a concrete example, and make "Product X" Canon's EOS 5D digital camera. It's a $3,000 body w/o a lens, there are affiliate programs for web masters to make some money on reviewing it, and there are literally thousands of reviews. Here's a 35 page review of the 5D; the best on the internet. Sure enough, it's already listed on WP, along with another quality review, and a page listing all the hundreds of other, lesser quality reviews. You should add it to the article's discussion page, and let the community weigh in. This is WP's policy, and WP considers it spamming in most cases to simply do a drive-by link drop. Anyway, I don't use Wikipedia because I don't trust the quality of the information I find there ... mostly because of threads like this one. And their anyone can edit model; I've read things about photography, a subject I know about, that are obviously wrong. If I want information, I want it from someone who knows more about the subject than I do. I don't personally care if you bring WP down. The point is, you don't have to convince me it's not spam, you have to convince Wikipedia. I'm simply giving you a heads up to how things work over there. Repetition isn't necessarily part of spam's definition. You can join a forum, drop a link in your first and only post, and then get hit by a truck before you get a chance to do it again ... that's still spam. Unwanted link drops are spam. Actually, it's pretty relevant. Spamming isn't helping the community at all; someone else has to come along and clean up after the spammer. It's abusing the community, and bringing confusing to the "marketplace of ideas." It's 100 % about "at least I got some traffic" and 0 % about helping the community. The dog analogy is a pretty good one, I think. And I didn't write any of this to offend you, or anyone else. Webmasters looking for links to SEO their site have a perspective they tend to share with other webmasters ... but the rest of the world doesn't look at things the same way, and is very hostile to spamdexing. I'm expressing a view-point that no one else seems to share or be aware of. The decision of what to do is yours, but you'd be wise to take this information into account. But, you're the first person who's taken issue with my opinion and expressed why instead of just giving me red rep for speaking my mind, so thanks for being civil.