User talk:Yourpractice

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Fine that your are joining wikipedia and adding content on obesity. Your work would however be much better integrated in the encyclopedia if you would use more often internal wikilinks. If you type Obesity this will become Obesity. this way the reader can read more information on that page. --Donar Reiskoffer 13:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in expanding Wikipedia's coverage of obesity issues. Some of the articles you have created, like List of obesity surgeons, appear to be promotional in nature. Wikipedia does not accept promotional material - please see What Wikipedia is not for more details. FreplySpang (talk) 05:54, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * That kind of information is outside the scope of the Wikipedia project. We're not a directory, or a collection of every possible kind of information. FreplySpang (talk) 05:59, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No - it's not just the external links, but the list itself which is a problem. As I said, Wikipedia is not a directory. FreplySpang (talk) 06:24, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * As I keep saying, Wikipedia is not a directory.. Please read What Wikipedia is not for an explanation. There is lots of useful information in the world that doesn't belong in an encyclopedia - that's why there are other kinds of references, like phonebooks, dictionaries, atlases, price lists and so on. There are other reasons why a list of obesity surgeons is problematic for us. For one thing, it makes it look like we are endorsing them, which we certainly are not doing. FreplySpang (talk) 14:38, 28 March 2006 (UTC)