User talk:Mbilitatu

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Welcome!

Hello, Mbilitatu! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! -- Levine2112 discuss 21:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: edit a page • upload and use images Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons Manual of Style • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community Portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Pages needing attention • Peer review Miscellaneous User name • User pages • Talk pages Clean up: General - Spam - Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

[edit] Energy medicine schools

Welcome to Wikipedia! Sorry if deleting your list seemed brutal, but if these schools are businesses then listing them on Wikipedia amounts to advertising, commonly referred to as linkspam. If they aren't businesses, the list still shouldn't be there because Wikipedia is not a collection or database of links, it is an encyclopaedia. I would have a look at What Wikipedia is not. Famousdog (talk) 14:23, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

The two pages you pointed me to simply aren't great examples of Wikipedia entries. Lists of things are despised by many on Wikipedia, which is supposed to be an open source encyclopedia, not a directory or a search engine. Those pages fall fairly squarely under many of the rules covered by What Wikipedia is not and in all fairness probably should be deleted... However, if an article (say, Volkswagon) is about a company specifically, then it would be fine to add a link to their corporate website, so these guidelines are flexible. I still think that the list of energy medicine schools you provided counts as linkspam in the context of the Energy medicine article. They don't add any additional information about the topic of energy medicine, just point people away from Wikipedia. Famousdog (talk) 14:12, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome to WikiProject Alternative Medicine

Welcome Mbilitatu and thanks for your interest. Our project has stalled in the past month, but we are anxious to get it rolling again. Fresh voices such as yourself can help this process. If there is any way which I can be of help as you get started at Wikipedia, please don't hesitate to ask.

Oh, and you may consider beginning to decorate your User Page. Here's something to help you get started:

This user is a member of WikiProject Alternative medicine.

-- Levine2112 ^discuss 01:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Donna Eden

Oh, did I? Heck, sorry, that was a mistake, I must have inadvertently restored an old version. I only meant to remove the quotation marks from the phrase "alternative medicine". I'll go and fix it now, thanks for pointing that out. Gatoclass (talk) 04:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I ran into an edit of yours

and decided to come over and say, "Hello." I can see from the postings above that you are getting to Royal Wikipedia Welcome. Which has been known to beat some into submission (me on occasion) and has made others stronger - hopefully you. Life is supposed to be interesting. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 16:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your thoughts. Often having someone to lean on helps bridge these troubled waters. I am pretty much pulling my photographs out of here. I'd rather switch than fight. But I like the wikiconceipt and . . . I like sausages too. Think I'll have a couple for breakfast. Carptrash (talk) 17:48, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Since you are new here, I would say hang in there, and find your spots

Dear Mbilitatu:

I ran across your note to my good Wiki-friend Carptrash, and I noticed your unease and sense of frustration. Carp is a good fellow who is knowledgeable, and will give you guidance. He helped me, and I was grateful for it.

As a word of advice, I would note that there are articles that have a large following and shared authorship. Some of those are protected by people who think that they are important and have some inner insight, and are proprietary about what they have written and what is changed. You can work the fringe on those articles, but it might be better to not go head-to-head, especially as you are starting.

FWIW, IHMO it's a better strategy to find areas that you are interested in, in lesser known parts of the Wiki universe (sometime just a step away from the article you want to be in, and to work those. You are less likely to get stepped on. This also has the benefitical effect of giving you "history" in Wiki, and somewhat more credibility, I think.

"Don't give up the ship." Best to you. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 19:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)Stan