Update Tell Tyrone to check his messages A representative of the Wikimedia Foundation has made an attempt to contact Stephen Colbert through his staff In the meantime I m still gathering more information about the specific linking issue Lee That s an edit summary in an admin s block log not a message sent to anyone in any official capacity contrary to popular opinion some Wikipedians do have a sense of humor The message that was sent to him would represent an attempt to ascertain identity following an established procedure If Colbert wants to promote his site here all he needs to do is make a trivial effort to establish his identity to the Foundation which is already seeking to contact him as we speak Not that I have anything to do with this but I thought I might alert you to a simple way around this Lee Sheeh I apologize for not being more clear I didn t exactly expect you to go searching through miscellaneous site logs when I mentioned that someone from the Foundation was attempting to contact Colbert The Wikimedia Fountation is just to clear the non profit organization that handles Wikipedia s business and legal affairs They re seeking to contact him actually over events related to the previous night s Wikiality discussion on the Report this is something I heard through the grapevine and not anything I know much about but I thought perhaps that if this site is indeed a scrappy little underdog of a marketing campaign for book whick Colbert considers his baby he or a representative might want to bother to have a fifteen minute discussion which would allow tek related information to happily coexist with Wikipedia s policies He doesn t have to do anything he doesn t want to but since the folks at the tekjansen site seem to be somewhat preoccupied with the status of a single link here and have us listed as their top referrer despite the link being down half the time I thought the option might be of interest No huh Lee Re read the above I did not say they had to falsify the list in order for Wikipedia to be the top referrer I suggested a brief phone conversation might be worth the trouble if we re generating the bulk of their traffic and they re looking to promote Take a deep breath I also did not say Colbert has to verify his identity in any way However since the site seems to fail several points of our linking policy yes the site is likely to be removed without additional information being provided I m sorry but the it s relevant anyway angle is fairly weak the only reason this material would be an especially relevant resource on Colert would be if it was actually Colbert s writing It does not have information on anything relevant to Stephen s biography Generally speaking we don t count fan forums as an invaluable unique resource see WP EL That leaves the book which while possibly being Colbert s is irrelevant if it s not I could write a novel about Charlene and post in on my website and that would also not be relevant Or a novel about Stephen Colbert for that matter In any case I m sorry that for some reason I seem to have pissed you off I have no idea why you re so angry about this but I assure you again as I have assured you before it s nothing personal Lee My AMA request which you seem to have found was a private request for advice on how to handle a situation which has become somewhat tense You are welcome to conduct a straw poll if you want I haven t followed through on that personally because I ve already have openly solicited comments from editors at the Colbert talk page and believe we already have a pretty good index of what most experienced editors think of the link But go for it As I have stated before if there s a consensus to add the link I won t remove it I never never ever not even once said that I will refused to allow the link unless myself or a Wikipedia official is contacted by someone at the Colbert Report so please stop misrepresenting my remarks In the meantime there is absolutely nothing wrong with my asking another user for help and it does not represent bypassing a regular process You are welcome to file