[theme-reviewers] Author URI guidelines

[Mario Peshev]

The hosting company link does not contain any SEO/spam related content and
it provides a list of few dozen themes built by it's staff. I don't get it,
especially when there are themes in the repo leading to random company
sites that are no web shops.

I personally don't mind it at all and I actually find theme shops with the
word "theme" in a link way more disturbing, even if I think that everyone
should get some credit for spending time to release something for free for
the community.

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On 6 Aug 2013 17:14, "Jose Castaneda" <jomcastaneda at gmail.com> wrote:

> So a realtor site wouldn't be if the author is a realtor? Sorry the line
> does seems to be a little odd at times. Like @mario says it is a bit of a
> subjective decision.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Srikanth Koneru <tskk79 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Theme shops, personal websites and project websites are allowed as author
>> url and everything else isn't.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Jose Castaneda <jomcastaneda at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I have to ask as well since I've seen other themes use themeshops for
>>> their author credit links as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Mario Peshev <mario at peshev.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Chip, could I personally ask for some clarifications on the guidelines
>>>> page - either in make/themes or in the Codex under Theme Review or
>>>> wherever, like
>>>> http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Review#Licensing.2C_Theme_Name.2C_Credit_Links.2C_Up-Sell_Themes:
>>>>  or
>>>> http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-license-theme-name-credit-links-up-sell-themes/
>>>>  ?
>>>>
>>>> I tend to disagree so often with most subjective decisions that I'd
>>>> really love to actually have them better defined than what is already in
>>>> there, especially with the contradictions with some of the existing themes
>>>> in the repository.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mario Peshev
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Correct.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Ola Łączek <ola at bodera.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've got a theme that uses this address: http://www.siteground.com/ as
>>>>>> author URI and for credit link in footer.
>>>>>> In guidelines it says that "*For AuthorURI, emphasis is on the
>>>>>> personal nature of the site*".
>>>>>> So I think this link is not acceptable, am I right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Ola Łączek
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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