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[edit] Inclusion of "Eden Alternative" and others as links

Someone keeps adding "Eden Alternative" as a link under "See also." I have removed it as I don't think it is user friendly to advise the reader to "see" a link that goes nowhere. If you want it there, please write the article, but before you do, consider the following:

How are we to adjudicate between people who wish to promote themselves, or advertise a product under the guise of it being an "ecovillage"?

As we are going to have scores of folks who want to do some promotion of their project—there are now hundreds of ecovillages in the forming or building stages. It might be best to have some guidelines:

• For an article, we should keep in mind what Wikipedia is not; in particular:

• Wikipedia is not a soapbox (this includes self promotion and advertising)
• Wikipedia is not a free host or webspace provider
• Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information

• Does the ecovillage meet Gilman's definition of an ecovillage?
• Is there something noteworthy about the ecovillage that suggests it should have an article:

• It has been around a long time and has gone through (r)evolutionary changes (e.g., Findhorn, The Farm)
• It is a full-featured ecovillage and is doing something noteworthy (e.g. Earthaven)
• Its members have invented and are pioneering new technologies (e.g. Gaviotas)

A List of ecovillages has been added to the article, which may help to sort this out. We can be much more inclusive in a list (though we should probably have a few groundrules, such as keeping it to an external link and brief comments).

Those are some initial thoughts. Please discuss. Sunray 21:09, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)

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I have added ecovillage to the navbox you see here. I need to know if folks think its relevant, needed or useful. Thoughts, comments, questions, etc. desired. Thanx! CQ 02:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)