User talk:Mnpfp

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, the external links you added do not comply with our guidelines for external links. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links; nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, external links do not alter search engine rankings. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page before reinserting it. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.Jmjanssen 17:34, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Please stop adding inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or promotion. Since Wikipedia uses nofollow tags, additions of links to Wikipedia will not alter search engine rankings. If you continue spamming, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Jmjanssen 15:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Regarding your post on my talk page, there are a few things that qualify your post as spam. If not spam, then not necessarily meeting wiki guidelines. When information and external links are posted, they should meet the notability guidelines. Your subject matter, while important and relevant, does not seem to. If everyone that had a cause was editing wikipedia to their whim it would become qutie a cluttered place. Also, there is an obvious conflict of interest being that you are obviously making edits on behalf of the Minnesota Primate Freedom Project. Finally, your edits do not seem neutral. I would hope that you would realize why the above should prevent you from making your edits. If your edits were neutral, from an unbiased source, and notable, this would be a completely different matter. Again, I feel that your campaign is worthy and I wish you the best, but Wikipedia is not the place for it.Jmjanssen 06:49, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

There is already a section on Wikipedia covering the Primate Research issue. Adding references and links to any related page looks like and is spam. There are amynt hings going on at the U that we could talk about such as the lack of funding, elimination of GC, etc. but they are not necessarily encyclopedic. You did well in adding links and references, but Wikipedia is not a debate forum or a blog, it is an encyclopedia. To answer your question very clearly, I would not have written the entries at all. Other options you might take are creating a brand new page for the controversy. For the record, I live in Minnesota too. Flooding my e-mail with articles about the primate research does not make it encyclopedic. Please go to the welcome page and start with the Five Pillars of Wikipedia, being a reasonable person as you seem to be you should easily see why your contributions are not encyclopedic.Jmjanssen 05:05, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Another option I just thought of, and probably the best, would be to start new Wiki entries for the researchers you are aiming at. You would of course have to do proper entries, and your piece would only be a minor footnote, but that seems reasonable and would probably meet Wiki standards.Jmjanssen 06:53, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

No, my first name is not Joe.

At any rate, did your read the welcome page and the five pillars? If you did, I can't believe we're still discussing this. The first pillar should give you multiple reasons to go elsewhere, maybe Wikinews instead? Being the way it is, minor issues shouldn't be added. Issues in of themselves are not necessarily encyclopedic. Minor makes them less encyclopedic given that entries should meet notability guidelines.Jmjanssen 06:22, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Notability Guidelines dictate that entry was not notable. The external link makes it spam. Notability requires objective coverage, the link from MnPFP was not objective. Notability guidelines would also cover all of the other entries you made.For the record, if you look at your contribution histroy, I was not the only person to undo your revisions.Jmjanssen 04:44, 29 June 2007 (UTC)