User talk:Avigdor6

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Best, DLand^TALK 16:30, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Factsmart.org links

Please do not add commercial links (or links to your own private websites) to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. See the welcome page to learn more. Thanks. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 19:31, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

It's great that you're adding content to the articles, but it's suspicious that every bit of content that you add has a link to factsmart.org. Please try to stick to content so your contributions aren't interpreted as spam. Thanks, OhNoitsJamie^Talk 20:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Factsmart.org is a non-profit web site that attempts to educate the public in risk-related health issues. I could write much more extensive material into the associated Wikipedia articles, but it would lengthen them beyond what most readers would be interested in. (This IS an encyclopedia, not a medical study forum...). Please feel free to suggest a better way to bring the information to the readers. [user:Avigdor6].

It may be non-profit, but the site has Yahoo! ads. Wikipedia is not the appropriate place to drive traffic to a site, non-profit or not. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 21:16, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

So you threw the baby out with the bathwater. I must have been naive assuming that Wikipedia is here to educate, not just to pontificate the glory of obscure formulae that are accessible to the very few. As a senior scientist, I see it as my job to educate the public by explaining things in elementary terms. "Risk ratio", and the "Ethics of Statins" are issues that need to be made clear to the public, as are many other issues that the press hypes. However, you have deleted them. To repeat: Please feel free to suggest a better way to bring the information to the readers. [user:Avigdor6] Apr 16, 16:32 UTC.

Response How about just putting in the content without putting in a link to factsmart.org in every one of your contributions? In most cases, I only deleted the link. I did delete a sentence or two in cases where the sentence didn't add anything new to the article. Looking at your contributions, it appears that the underlying intent is to add as many links to factsmart.org (which has Yahoo! ads) as possible. OhNoitsJamie^Talk 17:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)