User talk:Fincaproject

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The edits that you made to several pages, including Trees and Rainforest, could be seen as self-promotion. Please take a look at the guidelines for what wikipedia is not, and then we can discuss integrating this link into appropriate place(s) in appropriate article(s). Thank you, and welcome to wikipedia! --Pawl 15:16, 29 October 2006 (UTC)


 * (Copied from Pawl's talk page) Pawl, I am new to Wikipedia. Thank you for your scrupulous editing and concern for portraying the truth in these pages. I see that you removed all of my posting in external links. I guess I dont understand what external links are. Most of the other links for example in reforestation are reforestation projects similar to mine, and I wonder what particularly caught your eye to delete mine. I believe that our website (fincaproject.com) has valuable information about reforestation and opportunities for students interested in reforestation to study and learn more about the subject. Many of the other external sites for this subject are mereley asking for contributions, while we are active educators. In this way I dont understand how my action has gone against the Wikipedia Code. If you can please tell me more about why and how you are thinking (or thought) about this, please do so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fincaproject (talk • contribs)


 * Fincaproject, I am afraid that I was guilty of not assuming good faith. I saw the addition first on Rainforest (where it may well belong), and checked your other edits, and saw that you had put the same link in several places (including Tree, where it seemed to me that it did not belong), and saw that these were the only edits that you had made. It looked to me like linkspamming, and, again, I failed to assume good faith. After you have reviewed the wikipedia guidelines for the use of external links (which you may have already), if you choose to add that link back where you think appropriate, I will not object or revert. I apologize for what was hasty behavior. Again, as I said before, welcome to wikipedia, and happy editing. Oh, and don't forget to sign your comments on talk pages with ~ ! Pawl 16:32, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

CAN (Community Agroecology Network) link
In response to your message, the Fair trade page has long been clogged with countless, worthwhile, but unnecessary links to alternative trading organizations. I don´t think you realize that if we start allowing all ATOs to add links to their websites, soon, we will have over several hundreds of links (some legitimate, some not) to deal with. There was a discussion a while ago about this on the discussion page... the consensus was that only links to the ATOs that played historically an important role in the development of the movement (SERVV, Oxfam, CRS etc.) would be allowed but all others would be deleted. For this reason, I recently removed the link to Ten Thousand Villages, one of the most well-known ATOs in the sector. It is unfortunate, but in the end, Wikipedia is not a link repository, but an encyclopedia. If you believe this is discriminatory, feel free to discuss it on the discussion page, maybe we can get rid of all the links altogether...

I hope you understand the reasoning. Thank you for your message. Vincentl 16:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)