User talk:Irmtraining

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Your accounts seem to exist solely to promote your company. Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites that you are affiliated with, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. — Saxifrage ✎ 15:31, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

What you are perhaps unaware of is that I can see ever edit you have made. All involve adding links to pages you are affiliated with. This is a plain violation of our external links guideline. I must emphasise that usefullness and commercial-ness don't matter. What matters is that this is self-promotion. Self-promotion is unacceptable at Wikipedia no matter what is being promoted: a company, academic papers, personal webpages, political parties, popular culture items... it doesn't matter. By our rules, it qualifies as spam if someone inserts a link to their own material. All editors are expected to leave behind their personal and professional interests when editing here to maintain neutrality of the encyclopedia. An editor who edits in conflict of interest will be sanctioned. — Saxifrage ✎ 01:22, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Addendum: I want to be clear on something which your comparison with Irise brought up. I am not objecting to your link. It may be very useful, and may contain interesting material. Whether this is true or not is not something for me to decide and can be left to uninvolved, unbiased editors who are not in a conflict of interest (i.e., not you) who have independently come to the conclusion that your site is good for the article according to our guidelines (i.e., someone other than me). What I am objecting to is that you own the site and you are adding the link. When someone adds links to their own material, there is a problem regardless of what that link leads to. — Saxifrage ✎ 01:27, 27 October 2006 (UTC)