The ad in question:

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List of my unique contributions to wikipedia http://tacos.sus.mcgill.ca/~hperes/uniwiki/name.html

BTW, if u would like to have this feature for yourself, please email me at hu.peress@mail.mcgill.ca . The high tech field is very tough for a young graduate to get into, and I have to ask for a paypal DONATION suggested at: ("$5 for bi-daily updates from the wikipedia data to your page and $10 for daily" per year). This includes one personalized feature request that I will custom code,and the ability to choose features from among the pool of other users custom code. This also includes support.

The purpose of this project is to assist me in my graduate research on AI and huministic-intelligent systems.

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I think this is fine. If it had been a flashing banner add for a dating service it would be different. He is only saying that if someone else wants him to spend the time to put together a page similar to one he has he will do it for a reasonable fee. Don't know what the rule should be, but I think this should be acceptable.

-Jim

At 01:37 PM 9/25/2002 -0700, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:

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The user hfastedge has on his page an ad for some kind of service he's offering...

We do have a policy here that user pages don't have all the same rules as encyclopedia pages, and we generally have let people get away with just about anything, but I don't think we've ever discussed ads in particular. I don't personally have much problem with it. It's been understood that user pages are kind of personal space and not subject to Wikipedia policy except for copyright violations and outright obscenity. If a user wants to hype a business, I don't think that's too out of line.

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