User talk:Jhecklinger

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Globalgiving links
Hi Jhecklinger. I've been reverting your recent links to Global giving because they have not added encyclopedic value to the articles you've been adding them to. While I appreciate you are acting with good intentions, I must ask that you refrain from trying to promote the global giving site on wikipedia. Please see the external links guidelines for guidance on what is and isn't normally acceptable in this regard. In general, if your intention in posting a link is for a purpose other than adding encyclopedic content that cannot be directly written into the article, the link should not be added. --Siobhan Hansa 14:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Response to your emails
John, I'm responding on your talk page because conversations about the project should be available to everyone unless there is good reason for confidentiality.

On the block on Globalgiving employees editing wikipedia. As far as I am aware, the only account that has been blocked in relation to Globalgiving was the IP address 209.183.208.197 - from your email I assume this is the Global giving office's IP address. The block was for 31 hours from 2006-10-13 and should have expired quite a whle ago. If you are still having difficulty accessing wikipedia, please email an admin like User:Gwernol and let them know exactly what message you get.

When you edit at Wikipedia you are volunteering for Wikipedia. Your other affilliations need to take second place to Wikipedia's mission. Since you say you are from Global Giving, I will point out in the strongest possible terms that you must not add links to sites you own, work or volunteer for to Wikipedia articles. It is a conflict of interest. Using Wikipedia to promote your nonprofit subverts Wikipedia's mission to become a great encyclopedia. It's not particularly ethical to subvert another nonprofit's mission in order to promote your own. If you believe a link to your site will add encyclopedic value to an article, suggest it on the article talk page - noting your affiliation and why you think it's a worthwhile link. That way other editors can evaluate it.

On the Globalgiving link on the Social entrepreneurship article - I'm not that keen on the Kiva link either, but I left it there because of all the links on the page it was the one that I thought encapsulated social entrepreneurship support the best. Your own site and many of the others there have some social entrepreneur support, but they were mainly (and I'm generalizing a lot here) traditional aggregation sites with lots of organizations for people to give money to - not specifically social entrepreneurs. The external links are not supposed to be directories, the point is to provide a few choice links to sites that really add value for a reader of the article (see the external links guidelines and what wikipedia is not). I looked for the most appropriate example from the links available - Kiva seemed to be it.

I hope that explains what I did and why. That Kiva was the best example is of course just my opinion. Other editors may see things differently and if you feel better decisions could be made in regard to the article you are encouraged to bring them up on the article talk page. --Siobhan Hansa 17:03, 21 October 2006 (UTC)