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 **  and I have probably done all the necessary explaining here and at .  We don't link to music.download.com, Purevolume, MP3.com, or any of the other music download sites because the artists put those links on their websites; so there's no point in making an exception for less-well-known sites.  If the artist wants listeners to download their songs, then that artist or that label will say where on their website.  We can't make exceptions for sites that have only been up for two months, have an Alexa rank of 367,941 , and are looking for publicity.  Alexa doesn't think your site is very pertinent at all; ""big"" only matters in terms of its web traffic rankings, which services like Alexa provide.  Spamming doesn't have to be done by a bot; it can be done by a human seeking widespread promotion for their site, their friend's site, or whatever.  External links sections are necessary because 99 times out of 100 they link to the artist's official website, and usually also their site on their label, sometimes a Myspace page too (note that Myspace is the 24th most popular site on the internet - Wikipedia's the 58th - and Myspace has an article on this site that has been kept without question) or a prominent fan site (e.g. a fan club).  As for policies, Wikipedia:External links answers all of your questions for you when it says, ""Wikipedia disapproves strongly of links that are added for advertising purposes. Adding links to one's own page is strongly discouraged. The mass adding of links to any website is also strongly discouraged, and any such operation should be raised at the Village Pump or other such page and approved by the community before going ahead.""  So even if you get somebody else to do it, it's still spam.  "