Hi Jimmy:
As a new user at Wikipedia, I created a journal for Amateur Astronomy at Academic Publishing Wiki. I was encouraged by the project because it is a forum for original research in a Wiki environment.
I then linked from Wikipedia articles to Academic Publishing Wiki and the journal I created there, but I was reprimanded by Wiki editors who said that I had violated policies against promoting websites and spamming. I tried to reason with the editors about it, but they unanimously concluded that it is against Wikipedia policy to allow links to Academic Publishing Wiki.
I invite you to review the debate at my discussion page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Wvogeler. If you feel so inclined, I would appreciate your thoughts on the subject. Thank you.
Sincerely,
WVogeler
By the looks of it, your journal isn't yet established enough to warrant a link from Wikipedia. Try adding the links back when your journal is bigger, more informative and more reliable.
William Vogeler wrote:
As a new user at Wikipedia, I created a journal for Amateur Astronomy at Academic Publishing Wiki. I was encouraged by the project because it is a forum for original research in a Wiki environment.
I then linked from Wikipedia articles to Academic Publishing Wiki and the journal I created there, but I was reprimanded by Wiki editors who said that I had violated policies against promoting websites and spamming.
In the page you link to, you say " I have had some trouble trying to promote Academic Publishing Wiki http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page and a new journal I created there called Amateur Astronomy http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Amateur_Astronomy".
Have you had a chance to look at this guideline?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest
It opens with this paragraph:
A Wikipedia *conflict of interest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest* is an incompatibility between the purpose of Wikipedia, to produce a neutral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view encyclopedia, and the aims of individual editors. These include editing for the sake of promoting oneself, other individuals, causes, organizations, companies, or products, as well as suppressing negative information, and criticizing competitors.
So you can see how your behavior is out of bounds.
The way I think of it, we're all hopelessly biased toward our own products; if not, we wouldn't do them. So instead of using Wikipedia for self-promotion, you're better off devoting your energies to improving your journal. Eventually somebody will say, "Hey, why isn't that great journal referenced in Wikipedia?" and fix the problem for you.
Good luck,
William
On 10/02/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
The way I think of it, we're all hopelessly biased toward our own products; if not, we wouldn't do them. So instead of using Wikipedia for self-promotion, you're better off devoting your energies to improving your journal. Eventually somebody will say, "Hey, why isn't that great journal referenced in Wikipedia?" and fix the problem for you.
Yeah. Referencing one's own work is probably a COI.
(I have occasionally referenced things I've been involved in - on [[Sharity]] I originally referenced a post on my own blog and said so on talk, though the ref was replaced in a later revision. And in [[Xenu]] I linked to a page on my own site, which was a web copy of a Usenet post - Grady Ward's synopsis of 'Revolt In The Stars', L. Ron Hubbard's treatment for a speculated movie version of the Xenu story.)
- d.