Andrew Wesolek
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editHello and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, see:
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The links I posted are not promotional in nature. I posted links to the Institutional Repository of Utah State University. The repository is a non-profit entity that houses all of the intellectual works produced at the university-and as often as possible--these works are completely open-access. The links I posed on Wikipedia pages lead directly to pages that house a great deal of information on the relevant topic, and as such, are valuable in furthering the understanding of the users of wikipedia. Thank you. -Andy
- What help are you asking for? You have not made that clear.
- The links certainly look promotional to me. They appear to be posted primarily to call people's attention to your "Institutional Repository" (i.e. to promote it) rather than to add to the content of the articles you posted them to.
- You clearly have a conflict of interest, and should avoid editing on this subject. JamesBWatson (talk) 16:59, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
James, thank you for getting back to me. In the article for "aspen" I included a substantive bibliography of research on aspen that we have made available for researchers (http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/). My external link, though, was removed. It seems to me that this would be quite helpful to those looking for further information on aspen, and thus, it enhances the quality of the article more than it promotes the repository. Several other external links in the same article provide a similar service. I suppose my question, then, is why the link was removed. Is it due primarily to conflict of interest? Thanks.
- The guideline you might want to read up on is at WP:EL. Note that the fact that they link to a non-profit entity is never a good reason to add them - we do not differentiate. If there are links there that provide a similar service, then adding new ones will certainly look like a spam addition, as it is increasing the number of links without adding a significant increase of usefulness. Ronhjones (Talk) 19:14, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
- Alternatively try to add it as a reference to the existing content. Check for this Wikipedia:refToolbar 2.0 (alt: WP:INCITE) out! mabdul 18:07, 7 August 2011 (UTC)