User talk:BenLinders

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Hello, BenLinders, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Boson (talk) 12:04, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
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April 2012
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Agile software development. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 16:17, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Comment from BenLinders: Apologies, I wasn´t aware that the link I added would be considered inappropriate. The article on my blog that I referred to discusses my opinion on how the CMMI V1.3 support agile. I´ve had feedback from several readers on my blog post, including people from the SEI. Therefor I considered my blog post to be useful information, that I wanted to share via wikipedia.

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Reply to your post at my talk page:

I have added a welcome notice above; it's a bit late but it contains some useful links to Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Of particular interest are the Conflict of interest, What Wikipedia is not, Identifying reliable sources, and External links guidelines.

Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not a directory, so though your list may be useful, I do not think its inclusion is compliant with Wikipedia guidelines. If you disagree, I think your best course would be to propose your addition on the talk page and otherwise follow the advice at WP:COI. You may wish to consider declaring your interest on your user page. --Boson (talk) 12:06, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Retrospective
Thank you for your attempt to improve Retrospective. However, while the material you added had a creative Commons license it was the variant with the noncommercial clause, so it is not acceptable for inclusion in Wikipedia.-- S Philbrick (Talk)  12:41, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Which material do you mean? The text I added was taken from a blog post that I wrote. Do you need some kind of permission from me for publishing it on Wikipedia? BenLinders (talk) 13:48, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , Surprisingly, yes. See Donating_copyrighted_materials S Philbrick  (Talk)  18:09, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

OK, I want to donate the text. Maybe I'm overlooking it, but how can I do that? BenLinders (talk) 18:19, 13 May 2019 (UTC)
 * , Did you follow the link? You are free to donate it although it's a bit of work and probably not worth the effort. Wikipedia is dependent on published reliable sources and your blog post won't qualify as a published reliable source. Thus, if you provide the appropriate license it won't be removed as a copyright violation but it will be removed as not supported by published reliable sources, unless you can provide such sources. It might be easier to simply rewrite and incorporate reliable sources. Or you can arrange for the license and add the necessary reliable sources but be aware that if you don't have reliable sources to back up the material you wrote it can be removed. S Philbrick  (Talk)  18:57, 13 May 2019 (UTC)

Ok, clear, thanks for explaining how this works. I won't be going through the process of adding reliable resources and donating text, mainly because I feel unable to judge if a resource is reliable. I consider myself biased as I'm also contributing to the agile retrospectives knowledge and experience as a practitioner. BenLinders (talk) 19:07, 13 May 2019 (UTC)