On 10 December 2011 11:38, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:

Here's the thing.

Banner adverts are bad.

Sometimes they're necessary (the fundraiser being the most obvious example, but other "get involved with Wikipedia/WMF/chapters" stuff qualifies) - but when they're not, they shouldn't be tolerated.

Recruiting for a third party's research project is advertising. [[WP:PROMOTION]] (point 1) is very clear on the matter: it is not appropriate. On Dec 10, 2011 3:50 AM, "Dario Taraborelli" dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org wrote:

[deleted because apparently my little text added at the top when I posted from my phone pushed the message over the list's pathetically small limit. That was 24 hours ago; apologies for the delay, I couldn't get to a computer until now.]