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(a)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(a)nupedia.com wrote:
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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