Abd, you are one to talk. You were banned from en.wikipedia for pushing fringe beliefs on Cold Fusion and it turns out that you are trying to profit by selling your "information packages" to people.
Why do you people insist on using Wikiversity to profit? It is not your personal play ground to use to recruit people to your outside groups. On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>wrote: > Jeffrey Peters, since he mentioned Wikiversity accounts, as an FYI to > others on this list, is well-known as WMF global account Ottava Rima, > banned on Wikipedia and not uncommonly blocked elsewhere for gratuitous and > tendentious incivility. His routine practice can readily be seen in this > thread. > > There is no policy against mentioning useful web sites, that is handled > on-wiki on a case-by-case basis. If it's relevant, it is totally allowed > here, as well. COI is irrelevant, as long as there is no pretense. > > Basically, one can ignore the claims of Peters as to rules. He frequently > makes them up. If you add a reasonable link on Wikiversity and someone > removes it, discuss the matter. I'm user Abd there, and not a sysop, but I > know some. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 22, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Jeffrey Peters < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 matter how relevant or good they may be, it should be rescinded.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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l > >
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