User talk:RickSalsman

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Please do not post commercial links to Wikipedia. Advertising is not accepted. -- RHaworth 17:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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 * I am working on a book about massage therapy and spiritual growth and how it overlaps modern society. In my travels and researching I have come across a LOT of things, some very odd and some pretty amazing. I've recently started using Wikipedia to find data and someone suggested that the right thing to do is to, in fair turn, contribute what I have that isn't there.  I started today and found myself frustrated at what I think are some very legitimate and good things Wikipedia uses, but that seem to have misunderstood my intentions.  First of all, I am NOT commercially part of any discipline, massage or spiritual, or religion.  I am a researcher who believes strongly in sharing information in the spirit of Wikipedia.
 * Today I started by updating a couple of pages about a particular massage technique and my entries kept vanishing. Well, it took me this long to realize it wasn't my own lack of knowledge in how to work Wikipedia.  I notice that you removed the entries for being vanity entries or adverts.  I would really like to contribute to Wikipedia and to become a proper submitting member, but I am finding that I don't know the proper way to make things look sufficiently not like they are there to make me a dollar. In reality, they are not there to make me even a cent.  Is there some guideline on Wikipedia that can show me how to contribute what I intend as historical or research information that won't come across as having an agenda?
 * -- RickSalsman [via e-mail]

Please see the box headed "Wikify!" on my talk page. Why should I have to guess what articles you are talking about? Wikipedia is awash with guidelines and policies. The one I suggest you start with is Notability (people) because the problem with the Caleb Parazette article was not the style but the content. I marked it as advert because I thought "no one but Caleb Parazette himself could write such an article which declares non-notability so strongly". I am sorry, he just does not cut it. Aromalomi is almost equally non-notable but I was feeling kind and decided not to take any further action. -- RHaworth 12:59, 15 September 2006 (UTC)