JakeSturm

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Your Edit to Mali

Hi, I would appreciate if you would not insert material which is not relevant to Mali, such as an Amazon book. Wikipedia is not a place to advertise your book. Thanks. miranda 18:17, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Bhutan

Hi. I moved your response over to the Talk:Bhutan page so that others could see it as well. Hope that's ok with you. Regards. --Regents Park (sink with my stocks) 03:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

(I also popped in a welcome message above - since no one has done it as yet. Welcome! --Regents Park (sink with my stocks) 03:02, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thank you for the welcome message, added latest comment to Bhutan article. Didn't notice the signature mark, will include that in the future.

( 69.202.73.21 (talk) 17:13, 4 November 2008 (UTC) )

Third opinion

Hi!

You recently added a listing to WP:Third opinion regarding a dispute you are having with another editor. This listing has been removed (not by me, though I was on my way to remove it).

I'm not convinced that that WP:3O is the best place to deal with your dispute; WP:3O is really for disputes on one article, and it sounds like your dispute spans several articles?

If you haven't already, you should try discussing the matter with the other editor on their talk page.

If you've tried that, then you could maybe try Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts or Wikipedia:Requests for comment. You might also want to have a look at Wikipedia:Dispute resolution to see if there are other avenues you could try. I should stress, though, that you should make every effort to try and resolve this with the other editor first.

Good luck, and feel free to talk to me if you need advice or impartial assistance.

Cheers, This flag once was red^propaganda_deeds 22:34, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Your post to Wikiquette alerts

When adding references to articles, you should be citing specifically the information being referenced from the source. For books, this would include adding page numbers to the pages referenced. Also, when adding books, we don't link them to sales pages, like Amazon.com. Doing such is inappropriate advertising. Including the ISBN will allow readers to locate the book themselves. General references should be avoided. Although you may think one book is a good source of information for a given topic, others may have the same opinion about other books. It would be unreasonable to have reader's favorite books listed as "references" just because they enjoyed reading them. Additionally, linking to someone's website is not an appropriate source unless it meets the requirements of a reliable source and is being used to reference specific information. Otherwise, it is just spamming. لennavecia 17:57, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Conflict of interest

Re the Wikiquette alert, there appears to be a conflict of interest issue too. I've raised it at WP:COIN#Kira Salak. Standard advice below. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 19:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

If you have a close connection to some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may have a conflict of interest. In keeping with Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy, edits where there is a conflict of interest, or where such a conflict might reasonably be inferred from the tone of the edit and the proximity of the editor to the subject, are strongly discouraged. If you have a conflict of interest, you should avoid or exercise great caution when:

1. editing or creating articles related to you, your organization, or its competitors, as well as projects and products they are involved with;
2. participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;
3. linking to the Wikipedia article or website of your organization in other articles (see Wikipedia:Spam); and,
4. avoid breaching relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, verifiability of information, and autobiographies.

For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for businesses. For more details about what, exactly, constitutes a conflict of interest, please see our conflict of interest guidelines. Thank you. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 19:28, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

Copyright violation in Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea

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Re: Message from Jake Sturm

Re your message [1]: there's no need for hassle on either side. People here are generally very sensitive about edits that look promotional. Take a less proactive approach (as I said, follow WP:COI guidelines - declare your interest, and let others decide the suitability) and the edits are a lot more likely to stay.

By the way: it's considered poor etiquette to mark edits as minor unless they're at a level no-one could reasonably object to (e.g. correction of obvious spelling mistakes). This certainly doesn't cover adding/removing currently disputed material. See Help:Minor edit for guidelines. Gordonofcartoon (talk) 04:55, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:WhiteMary.jpg)

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References to www.kirasalak.com

I'm replacing the links to the www.kirasalk.com with links to National Geographic everywhere since we don't usually reference content in personal webspace (it is hard to verify that the information is authentic). Note that I'm not deleting any references, even where they support historical assertions for which I think the articles are an inappropriate reference. I am, however, deleting references that point to the photo section of the kirasalak website. BTW, I think you can contribute to the website whether or not you have a COI. The key is to contribute within the parameters that we have in wikipedia and those parameters are fairly commonsensical: promotional stuff is not appreciated, references should be to reliable and independent sources, and the prose should be straightforward.

Look at it like this. When you first started posting stuff about Kira Salak, I assumed that this was just another publicity exercise (because of the large scale insertion of links to kirasalak.com) over some non-notable person, which it may or may not have been. However, now that I've read some of the stuff you've inserted, I can see that she is quite a lady and is reasonably notable (if Pico Iyer talks about her, she's gotta be notable!). Tone down the prose, don't promote the books or the website, and you'll find this a rewarding exercise. My reading of Ms. Salak is that she'll do quite well by herself without having to resort to hagiographic descriptions of her work and life. --Regents Park (bail out your boat) 17:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

I responded on my talk page. BTW, User:Righteouscrusader appears to be deleting your references. Any ideas? --Regents Park (bail out your boat) 21:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

The reason why your edits are not showing up is because I'm moving them from my user page to my talk page. I.e., from User:RegentsPark to User talk:RegentsPark. Comments should go to talk pages rather than user pages.Like I said, the fact that the article is excerpted is no reason to delete it. I should point out that the user who is deleting your references is only doing that (i.e., has no other edits at all on wikipedia). Which is why I wondered if you know who it is. --Regents Park (bail out your boat) 22:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

(Sorry. My edit summary should have said 'response to jake re salak'.) --Regents Park (bail out your boat) 22:21, 11 November 2008 (UTC)