[WikiEN-l] Original research

[William Pietri]

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