User talk:RenoFreeMarket

December 2008
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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I hope not to seem unfriendly or make you feel unwelcome, but I noticed your username, and I am concerned that it might not meet Wikipedia's username policy for the following reason: your username appears to be promotional in nature or represents a group. After you look over that policy, could we discuss that concern here?

I'd appreciate learning your own views, for instance your reasons for wanting this particular name, and what alternative username you might accept that avoids raising this concern.

You have several options freely available to you:
 * If you can relieve my concern through discussing it here, I can stop worrying about it.
 * If the two of us can't agree here, we can ask for help through Wikipedia's dispute resolution process, such as requesting comments from other Wikipedians. Wikipedia administrators usually abide by agreements reached through this process.
 * You can keep your contributions history under a new username. Visit Changing username and follow the guidelines there.12.JPG

Terrillja talk  04:04, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

--Hi, hope you can see this. Yes, as one of the organizers of the Really Really Free Market in Reno, I put a link to the site where people can get directions and info about the event. We're using MySpace since we do not have our own domain name and our promotional budget is extremely limited. As we are making no money off the event and have no intention of making money off the event (doing so would be contrary to the ideas of a really really free market, anyway). I also think the MySpace page for the event is more effective than a static webpage, especially since it's now printed on all the fliers and posters re: this event.

On the Really Really Free Market page, there are seven links to other 'Free Markets or seemingly identical projects. The previous incarnation of the Reno Free Market (the Reno Free Store) had a link to its MySpace page on the wiki article. Unfortunately those people stopped organizing the event mid 2007 for a variety of reasons. People interested in the concept may find their MySpace page instead of our own, which in no way mentions the current, active Really Really Free Market which has been held monthly for the past six months. Articles about the Really Really Free Market have appeared in print in the widely-circulated punk zine MaximumRockNRoll, and in CrimethInc.'s publication Rolling Thunder.

I totally understand and sympathize with your desire to keep spam and such off wikipedia, but as there are presently links to information about other 'Free Market projects, I feel there's no problem inserting a small link to our event, which is non-commercial and non-profit.

About the username: yes, it is promotional in nature. I'm trying to insert a link to the Reno Really Really Free Market without broadcasting my IP address. I don't intend to promote this event any further than that small link on that page.

Thank you for your time.