Also, as an FYI to others on the list - Steve Foerster founded a competitor to Wikiversity and has an extreme conflict of interest in this topic. Most likely, he doesn't even have a Wikiversity account.
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Steve Foerster <[email protected]>wrote: > Agreed. The mention of PlanetMath, which is a good resource, was > obviously meant to be a helpful response to a question asked by someone > else. > > Even if there is a policy against mentioning external resources, no matter > how relevant or good they may be, it should be rescinded. Such a policy > would place the organisation over its stated goal to further education. > > -=Steve=- > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:13:07 +0000 > From: Nkansah Rexford <[email protected]> > To: Mailing list for Wikiversity <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Are "solved problems" suitable for > Wikiversity? > > @jeffery, mentioning Planet math here is advertising? Really? When did > that become advertising? > > Hmmmm, still wondering. Its not as if the link is to Joe's personal > website or something. Its a website known by many. Joe is just bringing up > an issue and I believe its great considering the matter than banning the > matter saying its advertising. > > "Not an advertising group"? Apart from the mailing list of Wikiversity, > where else can discussions of this sort be held? > > I'm in this mailing list, Wikimania, Wikipedia, and other mailing lists. > Links are posted to references and stuffs like that. They're all Wikimedia > mailing list, but how come such links never get categorized as adverts but > are used in discussion? > > Is this "not advertising group" idea applied to only Wikiversity? > > Cmon > > google.com/+Nkansahrexford | sent from Tab > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l >
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