User talk:Authoress

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This is the only warning you will receive. Your recent insertion of spam, commercial content, and/or links is prohibited under policy. Any further spamming may result in your account and/or your IP address being blocked from editing Wikipedia. Please do not add promotional material to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. You are, however, encouraged to add appropriate content to the encyclopedia. If you feel the material in question should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. --Hu12 20:45, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your response. I wanted to link to articles on my site. These articles have been previously published in financial journals, but I own the copyright and want to make these articles freely available to all users of Wikipedia and the web. What is the best way to do that? — Authoress (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.


 * Neutrality is an important objective at Wikipedia, Unfortunately the External links policy on Advertising and conflicts of interest states You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked, which is in line with the conflict of interest guidelines. Your contributions to wikipedia under Authoress and IP 66.146.200.151, consist mainly of adding external links and is considered  WP:Spam. Looking through your contributions as a whole, the majority seem to be external link and, Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc related only. Spamming is about promoting your own site or a site you love, not always about commercial sites. Links to commercial sites are often appropriate. Links to sites for the purpose of using Wikipedia to promote your site are not. Hope that helps clears up the policy issues. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. You're here to improve Wikipedia -- not just to funnel readers off Wikipedia and onto some other site, right?--Hu12 07:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for taking the time to go into this, since it saves wading through all of the policy information. I'll directly add appropriate content to Wikipedia.

One further question, and I apologize in advance if this is not your department. I noticed that there are several bios for living people in finance on Wikipedia. What is the policy for adding this information, and how is it monitored so that others don't become creative with someone's life? For example noticed Darryl Duffie, Nassim Taleb and others have individual bios, and I couldn't find the specific policy.66.146.200.151 16:19, 26 May 2007 (UTC)]

OK, now I really do not get the policy. I added unique content with reference to my written material - no links, but my references were removed. I was happy to helped, but I removed my content. If Wikipedia is dated and incorrect in the areas in which I am expert, then I can hardly recommend it as a reference in other fields. This was a waste of my time, and I am sorry if you feel I wasted yours. I wish you well, but I will never trust this as a reference.66.146.200.151 22:04, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Either you or other individuals arbitrarily remove references. I may monitor to make sure my previously refereced content does not reappear without my references, however. If you have content with zero references, that is fine, but selective references from some pretty bad sources is not OK if you choose to remove my references. Besides, perhaps I do not want my name in this company, anyway. Allow me to give you an example. I see under asset backed securities, you reference Steven Schwarz from 1990. You also reference Jason Kravitz, whose work is rife with errors and who was recently involved in an asset backed securities fraud lawsuit in which his firm, Mayer Brown, settled out of court. I am happy to provide a reference, even though Wikipedia apparently doesn't want my references: Case No. C-J-2000-02274. I could go on, but what is the point? Again, good luck.Authoress 22:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

I just double checked and noticed that you removed the citations to my books or basically any place I cited my original work - not linked, cited. By the way, you left in a link that has pop-ups and is not the definitive source it claims to be, and it is not pro bono. Furthermore, you do a disservice to Wikipedia. Just as in the public library, where I can read about the author of a book judge if he/she has the credentials required to speak on a particular subject, I should expect to have access to the same level of information about an author on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is unwilling to insist on publishing the name and credentials of its contributors, except erratically and illogically.

At some point, I will write an article about my experience for a peer reviewed financial publication pointing out the problems and lack of credibility of Wikipedia. I will encourange financial professionals to do their own research and steer clear of Wikipedia. As for me, this is my last visit.
 * Please stop adding promotional material to Wikipedia. It is considered spam, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. If your confusion is with the conflict of itnerest guidelines of this site, you can seek a broader opinion at the Conflict of interest noticeboard.--Hu12 07:31, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

The section on total return swaps was lifted virtually verbatim from segments of my book: "Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures," the first book to be published on this topic. This is easily verifiable as my terminology also referencing Total Return Swaps is unique. Since Wikipedia does not want me to add references to my own work, I will remove the content whenever it appears. The Wikipedia policy is nonsensical, since it just gives random users license to plagiarize. In other instances, people have parphrased the work of others without attribution or added incorrect content. I understnad the reason for no outside links, but even this is arbitrary, since links are randomnly added.66.146.200.151 18:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)