User:Beadyeyedbrat

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Hello Beadyeyedbrat. In case no one else has yet, then welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you have recently inserted a link in the polymer clay article. This may constitute a conflict on interest. As you probably know Wikipedia is collaboratively written by volunteers, and consequently it is not for any one individual (such as me!) to decided what is included. Sadly though they are quite many people who use Wikipedia to promote their personal views or commercial interests (Please, I not saying that is you, just that such links often pop up). However Wikipedia does have policies on external links, and these are copied below:

• "Links mainly intended to promote a website"
• "Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services."

Or could be considered as self-promotion. Wikipedia's policy being:

• "A Wikipedia conflict of interest is an incompatibility between the purpose of Wikipedia" and
• "Self-promotion"
• "Conflict of interest often presents itself in the form of self-promotion, including advertising links, personal website links in articles, personal or semi-personal photos, or any other material that appears to promote the private or commercial interests of the editor adding the material, or of his associates."

• "Examples of these types of material include:
• "Links that appear to promote products by pointing to obscure or not particularly relevant commercial sites (commercial links)."
• "Links that appear to promote otherwise obscure individuals by pointing to their personal pages"
• "Biographical material that does not significantly add to the clarity or quality of the article."

ThanxTheriac 12:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)