We have the support for ISBN numbers in books references found in articles. These were created to avoid the multiplication of advertizing links to book vendors in articles, by allowing to centralize in a single, manageable page, the various book vendors, based on the publication product number.
Why don't we have the same thing for audio/video publications, i.e. with ASINs?
We start seeing the multiplication of links to specific audio/video product
resellers, and this occurs even if the reference is complete enough with the
audio/video title, the author/director name, year of publication, name of the
studio or label, and ASIN numbers.
As the number of competitive offers available on Internet has dramatically
increased, the competition seems to push some vendors to have their online shops
indirectly advertized in Wikipedia articles, using its reference sections. And
this tends to become a new kind of spam.
The audio/video sellers already have a huge presence elsewhere on the Internet with lots of ads inserted in many sites, so I don't think we need more ads indirectly in Wikipedia. We just need a correct and exact reference for a product, but we certainly don't need to reference their sellers and distributors.
Why not adding the support for a "Special:ASINsources" page like we have "Special:Booksources" for ISBN numbers, before we get flooded with those links inserted nearly automatically within articles found in Google?
With such tools, we could immediately ban the presence of some external URLs to audio/video sellers within articles, requiring vendors to reference themselves correctly in a single, manageable page for any ASIN number.