Jonathan B Singer

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Best of luck, Jonathan B Singer, and most importantly, have fun! Ombudsman 12:31, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Links to http://socialworkpodcast.com/

Hi Jonathan. I hope you're enjoying editing Wikipedia. I have just noticed that you are adding lots of links to a site you are associated with. I appreciate you have good intentions, but this type of editing is against our conflict of interest and spam guidelines. The links you have added so far will be removed.

We appreciate your efforts here and encourage you to continue to edit, but ask that you refrain from editing in a manner that could call into question the integrity and independence of our articles (by adding links to your own website for instance). If you believe links to your website would improve a particular article, please leave a note on the article talk page explaining who you are, what the link is and what it adds to the article and ask other, regular editors of the article to add the link if they believe it appropriate. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to leave a message here, or on my talk page. Thanks. -- Siobhan Hansa 23:03, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jonathan, you appear to have missed this part of the external links guideline.

You should avoid linking to a website that you own, maintain or represent, even if the guidelines otherwise imply that it should be linked. If the link is to a relevant and informative site that should otherwise be included, please consider mentioning it on the talk page and let neutral and independent Wikipedia editors decide whether to add it.

Your adding of links to websites you are affiliated with, especially when you add no content to Wikipedia, is not in keeping with the spirit of the external links section. If you believe a link for a site you are associated with is valuable to an articles, please suggest it on the article talk page, along with a note about who you are and why you think the link is a valuable addition. I personally think the site lacks authority and notability and so the links fail the guideline against blogs (since these podcasts are effectively audio blogs).

What would be in the spirit of Wikipedia would be for you to add content to our articles! We're trying to build a GFDL encyclopedia, external links don't bring content within that general mission, so are the least appropriate additions to an article. But using your expertise to help build up the actual articles we have would be great. -- Siobhan Hansa 17:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Jonathan. Thanks for moving to the article talk pages to suggest the links.

On making the audio content directly available on Wikipedia - Uploading your podcasts to Commons would be great. (Commons is a sister project also run by the WikiMedia Foundation. It is a repository for freely licensed media and hosts many of the photos and other media files used on Wikipedia.) Audio files on Commons can be embedded into the article page or added as a link to the related Commons page (there are even a couple of templates that make it clear you're linking to a sister project). The appropriate way to do this should be decided on by the editors (incluing you) of each article. (Note that putting your material on Commons does not automatically mean it may be linked to from Wikipedia articles) You can find out more about the technical aspects at Wikipedia:Media.

On why I don't think the posts are authoritative - it's less that I don't know you, I know very few people in the great scheme of things :-) But more that I couldn't find mention of you in academic publications using tools like JSTOR and Google Scholar, or in mainstream media. From my research (limited, admittedly, entirely to the web), you did not seem to be a prominent expert. You mention Carl Rogers and that's the sort of prominence that would lead to me being less likely to remove a link. Peer review of the articles would also make them more appropriate, if that peer review is by via a respected institution. But we do (or at least are supposed to :-) try to keep links down to just a few for each article, so not everything that is good enough will always be included. This is very much a judgment call and many editors have different standards for what they believe to be appropriate for the external links section. If other editors agree to a link's inclusion I wouldn't edit against that consensus. -- Siobhan Hansa 12:42, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:American Association of Suicidology's Logo (new).png

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Thanks

Thanks for your edits to Diseases of despair. I wanted to invite you to drop by Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine if you ever need any help or have any questions. I think we have a shortage of people with your knowledge and interest areas, and I hope I'll keep seeing you around. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:32, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks so much for letting me know about Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine WhatamIdoing. I'll be sure to use it as a resource moving forward. Jonathan B Singer (talk) 14:21, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Howard S. Becker

On 25 August 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Howard S. Becker, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 02:56, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Jonathan B Singer/Jonathan Bentley Singer

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