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