Jeffrey Peters, since he mentioned Wikiversity accounts, as an FYI to others on this list, is well-known as WMF global account Ottava Rima, banned on Wikipedia and not uncommonly blocked elsewhere for gratuitous and tendentious incivility. His routine practice can readily be seen in this thread.

There is no policy against mentioning useful web sites, that is handled on-wiki on a case-by-case basis.  If it's relevant, it is totally allowed here, as well. COI is irrelevant, as long as there is no pretense.

Basically, one can ignore the claims of Peters as to rules. He frequently makes them up. If you add a reasonable link on Wikiversity and someone removes it, discuss the matter. I'm user Abd there, and not a sysop, but I know some.

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On Dec 22, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Jeffrey Peters <17peters@cardinalmail.cua.edu> wrote:

Also, as an FYI to others on the list - Steve Foerster founded a competitor to Wikiversity and has an extreme conflict of interest in this topic. Most likely, he doesn't even have a Wikiversity account.

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Steve Foerster <steve@hiresteve.com> wrote:

Agreed.  The mention of PlanetMath, which is a good resource, was obviously meant to be a helpful response to a question asked by someone else.

Even if there is a policy against mentioning external resources, no matter how relevant or good they may be, it should be rescinded.  Such a policy would place the organisation over its stated goal to further education.

-=Steve=-


-------- Original Message --------
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:13:07 +0000
From: Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com>
To: Mailing list for Wikiversity <wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Are "solved problems" suitable for Wikiversity?

@jeffery, mentioning Planet math here is advertising? Really? When did that become advertising?

Hmmmm, still wondering. Its not as if the link is to Joe's personal website or something. Its a website known by many. Joe is just bringing up an issue and I believe its great considering the matter than banning the matter saying its advertising.

"Not an advertising group"? Apart from the mailing list of Wikiversity, where else can discussions of this sort be held?

I'm in this mailing list, Wikimania, Wikipedia, and other mailing lists. Links are posted to references and stuffs like that. They're all Wikimedia mailing list, but how come such links never get categorized as adverts but are used in discussion?

Is this "not advertising group" idea applied to only Wikiversity?

Cmon

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