Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 12:56 PM 9/25/02 -0700, Jimbo wrote:
The only concern I have about banning advertisements in user pages is that it commits us to enforcing content-based restrictions on those pages, which are generally NOT incluced in our NPOV mission.
We do generally have a rule that Wikipedia isn't the place to stash your home page, but that's different.
So, would it be reasonably cool for me to include a note that while I edit the Wiki stuff for free, I'm available for professional editing services of other material?
Yes, why not? And you would probably be more successful at it than our friend "hfastedge" because people have already seen your work, and have an idea of the quality of work that they would be getting. Our new friend has been with us less than a week, and the material on his user page gives the impression of a freshman psychology student who is very certain about how to fix people's problems
By raising this issue you've sent several of us to view his user page who otherwise would have ignored him completely. That gives him a marketing benefit that he could not generate himself. In reading his page I became completely turned off by his using "u" for "you", and the more I read the less I understood. I think his marketing strategy is faulty.
Ec