TomHRussell

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, please do not add promotional material to articles, as you did to Vernon Howard. Advertising, and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox", is strongly discouraged. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Kateshortforbob 15:48, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to add promotional material to Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry 02:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Reply re Superwisdom

Thanks for your message on my talk page. I hope you don't mind, but I will reply here, and make a link to this page from my talk page.

On Wikipedia, there is a guideline about adding external links to articles. The reason I removed the links you added was because I did not believe that they fit in with this guideline. Even non-profit organisations advertise and promote themselves; you added 3 links to the SuperWisdom website which you run to the Vernon Howard article which I felt was promotional. You also directly advertise a book (I assume written by yourself): "Tom's book "SuperWisdom" highlights his twelve years of work with author Vernon Howard". Whether you are making a profit or not, this is still advertising. Your suggestion for a different format: "SuperWisdom Foundation also delves into Vernon Howard's work, and the founder studied with Vernon Howard for many years. There is a podcast and other free material. (then the URL.)" seems reasonable, particularly since there are apparently already two similar external links in that article. I wouldn't object if you wanted to add something like that; however, there is no guarantee that other editors would feel the same way. I note that another editor has removed the links the second time you added them to the page.

Different editors have different levels of tolerance for external links of any kind. If you decide to re-add your link, it might be a good idea to explain why you think it's valuable on the article's talk page (click "discussion" at the top of the article). It might also be useful to read Wikipedia's policy on conflicts of interest. If there's anything I can help you with, you can leave a message here or on my talk page. Good luck, and have fun editing Wikipedia! --Kateshortforbob 17:12, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Hey! Thanks for your additions to the Vernon Howard article. I think the inline addition works pretty well. Regarding the references section, it's usually where sources for specific facts go. You can see in the article that links between <ref>...</ref> tags turn up in the references section automatically - that's why it's so fiddly to get the spacing right! Another place for links that contain further, related information that isn't in the article is the "External links" section. Thanks again and have a nice day! --Kateshortforbob 14:44, 16 October 2007 (UTC)