User talk:Elvishrider

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Hello, Elvishrider, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Volunteer Center, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Grayfell (talk) 19:18, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
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My edit has been refused along these lines: We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions, such as your edit to the page Volunteer Center, seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Italic text  In fact, I was offering information on a volunteer database, which is a free resource for other volunteers to use. There are over 2000 different projects that users can search from. So I don't consider this to be advertising or promotional. Please can you remove my block or the spam associated with the link? Could you also please suggest how else I can add the link to the database in? Thank you.

Elvishrider (talk) 09:39, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The fact that you (or WorkingAbroad) may not make money from visits to their site is completely immaterial. Your addition was intended to attract visitors to WorkingAbroad. It did not improve the reader's understanding of the concept of "working abroad", but instead promoted a resource that could be used by students who wanted to actually work abroad. That is not Wikipedia's purpose; we are not a how-to guide or database of links. Yunshui 雲 水 09:58, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

OK got it, thanks Elvishrider (talk) 10:09, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi again, from the angle that you are suggesting, WorkingAbroad is one of the original organisations of "self funded" volunteer opportunities worldwide and I believe it should be included in a discussion of what volunteering has largely become today and the pros and cons of it. This will be encyclopaedic information of how volunteering has evolved since PeaceCorps and state funded volunteering. Would this be acceptable? Elvishrider (talk) 12:54, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

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Hi again, from the angle that you are suggesting, WorkingAbroad is one of the original organisations of "self funded" volunteer opportunities worldwide and I believe it should be included in a discussion of what volunteering has largely become today and the pros and cons of it. This will be encyclopaedic information of how volunteering has evolved since PeaceCorps and state funded volunteering. Would this be acceptable?

Elvishrider (talk) 15:34, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * If that's based on reliable sources that are independent of WorkingAbroad, and it's not given undue weight, maybe. Keep in mind, though, that we're an encyclopedia - we provide information, maybe also summarize experts' published opinions, but we certainly do not assess pros and cons ourselves. Huon (talk) 15:44, 22 September 2017 (UTC)