User talk:Johnct

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia, as you did in Journalism. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links as long as the content abides by our policies and guidelines. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks. --Birdmessenger 20:47, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I was only trying to add what I thought was a genuinely useful resource.

Isn't American Journalism Review 'commercial'? It does, after all, carry advertising. --Johnct
 * Adding appropriate links to articles is an inexact skill, and different articles have different sets of editors who watch the page and have some idea on what is appropriate (it should be noted that I am in no way the final authority on whether your link was appropriate, and someone else might agree with you that it does belong).  Links should not be used, however, to promote one's own site or have only some tangential connection to the subject of the article.  Commercial sites are not automatically excluded by any means (and many sites carry ads as a means of paying the overhead).  The American Journalism Review is a publication about journalism and so the consensus here appears to have been thus far that it is a useful general resource.  AJR is also published academically, which probably increases its value as a resource in the eyes of editors here. At any rate, the intent was not to discourage you.  Happy editing.  --Birdmessenger 21:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)