User talk:Rhosymynydd

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June 2011
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October 2011
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August 2012
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Ostomy pouching system. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Lone boatman (talk) 12:24, 13 August 2012 (UTC)

august 2012
Please see all the above. LET US CLARIFY THE ABOVE POINTS - we are a non profit, non commercial site. All we do is to provide FREE additional information to the very basic information on the Wikipaedia site. We wrote a book (not promoted) to describe ostomy life and it took 460 pages to cover every aspect of ostomy life. There is no room to put all 460 on Wikipaedia. We donated the book to 600 international libraries for public use. It has sold well through Amazon, and we use the royalties, fully audited to make the puppets. We do not use our website to sell anything. On the website, we carry no advertising, we make no charges to include any manufacturer on our site. We encourage everyone who can provide an ostomy product on prescription, and who wants to be listed to give us their link, as the more information out there the better - but again, NO CHARGE! We pay for everything ourselves, the website, the designer, the content (where applicable) and we make the puppets in our own house with ostomy volunteers helping. (We are both retired professional journalists, with full medical accreditation) and verify every content. Not only that, realising the plight of the millions of children in the world who have to live their lives with an ostomy bag, we asked ourselves, would you not prefer to have a small pal with a real bag and stoma to be by your side through the operation? Or rely on adults?

They are educational medical puppets, as they include very relistic looking stomas; the real neonatal bags are removable and the puppets are being used in hospitals all over the world to show parents and children how to change their bags or to irrigate themselves. We have a young lad of 3 from the US irrigating successfully, thanks to his ostomy pal. We brought a catatonic 5 year old back from the brink by putting an ostomy puppet in her hands in Australia. We have medical missonaries who sail the Pacific Islands showing the puppets to patients tho need ostomical surgery. A young Peruvian nurse took her donkey cart to a mountain village to give a child a puppet. I can go on and on. From Siberia to Afghanistan; From Israel to Fiji; From the Philippines to Brazil, it might only be one puppet but its there. One puppet is flying the world to raise money for cancer research with his ostomate owner who was sacked from commercial flying because of his bag. What did he do? By a gyrocopter and fly to countries showing his ostomy, his ostomy co-pilot puoppet, visiting schools and hospitals and collecting for bowel cancer charities in the US & the UK??? We do not sell any email addresses of those who contact us with requests for information or our FREE news updates. All our accounts are professionally audited by a leading accounts company, and yes, we pay for that too. We do what the so-called ostomy associations, listed all over wikipaedia, (those that sit on millions, take paid avertising and paid website content, and pay their staff exorbitant salaries and expenses) cannot do - reach the individuals, especially the children under ten for which there is no separate provision in any country. We wrote an informational book - and use the royalties to make more puppets - we do not even advertise this on the website either.

This is content not a reference or referral. It is a medical tool being used in hospitals and by colorectal staff in many countries. We have supplied 2,700 puppets to children in 29 countries thus far (in 7 months) at no charge, even shipping costs are paid by us. What can you possibly find wrong with that? What have you done lately to help a sick child - or anyone come to that. My life ended when I woke up to a bag at 57 - or so I thought. I could not longer travel the world reporting news; we could no longer run our farm - everything stopped that day - so we decided to devote our pensiohable years to helping children who for over 48 reasons have to wear a bag permanently, who represent the future, to have successful happy lives and if giving them a free puppet helps in even a tiny way, then we have to get the word out. And you want to stop us.....? What is unethical about what we are doing. Is it because we are mentioning something below the waist? No-one talks about people who wear bags. You go shopping, you see someone in a wheelchair - 75% have a bag. At some stage, patients with MS, Parkisons, 18 different cancers, crohn's colitis, fistulas, fibroids, diabetes type 2, bed-bound, comatose people will all have bags. Injured returning soldiers from Afghanistan have horrific abdominal injuries - and yes they too wear a bag. (Yes, we make ostomy puppets for returning veterans to show their families what their injuries have caused, again at no charge). FORTY EIGHT REASONS, AND COUNTING,CAUSE ABDOMINAL AND UROLOGICAL SURGERY AT SOME POINT IN THE STAGE OF THESE ILLNESSES OR ACCIDENTS/INJURIES, ENDING IN A PERMANENT BAG. Over 1 million in the UK, 3 million in the US, 700.000 in Australia, 250,000 in EIRE, 1.6 million in Germany; 900,000 in France etc. etc. ...........Allow us to help in some small way.
 * And wikipedia's guidelines and mandate are also clear. we are here to be an encyclopedia. We are NOT an advocacy platform, nor a platform for you to promote your organization nor a colloection of links. Please stop abusing Wikipedia or you will be blocked. -- The Red Pen of Doom  14:02, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * In addition, you should not be adding content about groups etc where you have a conflict of interest. -- The Red Pen of Doom  14:06, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
 * That's not strictly true. An editor with a conflict of interest may edit an article, but they need to be very careful to maintain the article's neutral point of view, and if in doubt should consider proposing the edit on the article's talk page. The site you want to link to, Rhosymynydd, is an excellent resource, but it doesn't conform to our external links guideline. --Anthonyhcole (talk) 15:03, 13 August 2012 (UTC)