User talk:MedLink

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Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. JFW | T@lk  00:54, 7 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I saw your question to Jfdwolff, and I await his experienced reply with interest (re distinction to eMedicine). I've added a welcome-template greeting to the top of your talk page, please note it is policy to sign talk-page comments, the easiest way is with 4 tildes ~.
 * Quite aside from considerations on the merits of your site, which I am sure Jfdwolff will comment on (I'm not sure what the link to your site is, so I can't comment), there is a general policy about not linking to material (books, programmes, films, website) for which one is personally involved. Whilst this is certainly true for non-specialist individual's own websites, I presume you though represent a company using material written by authors who cite their facts in their articles. Given that both MedLink & eMedicine are commercial, it is important who is adding the links. Hence if an employee of eMedicine added links onto every wikipedia medical article to their site, that would be wrong and seen as advertising (or at least as self-promotion). However if another non-associated editor used one of eMedicine's article as part of their background references to an article, then such a link by that user seems potentially valid (assuming of course that the link is either a primary or secondary source of knowledge, but a website that is just a tertiary source or fails to add information already in the article is not appropriate). David Ruben Talk 01:47, 9 May 2006 (UTC)