[Wikipedia-l] ads on user pages

Wed Sep 25 22:25:41 UTC 2002

Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:

> At 12:56 PM 9/25/02 -0700, Jimbo wrote:
>
>> The only concern I have about banning advertisements in user pages is
>> that it commits us to enforcing content-based restrictions on those
>> pages, which are generally NOT incluced in our NPOV mission.
>
> We do generally have a rule that Wikipedia isn't the place to stash your
> home page, but that's different.
>
> So, would it be reasonably cool for me to include a note that while I 
> edit
> the Wiki stuff for free, I'm available for professional editing 
> services of other
> material?

Yes, why not?  And you would probably be more successful at it than our 
friend "hfastedge" because people have already seen your work, and have 
an idea of the quality of work that they would be getting.  Our new 
friend has been with us less than a week, and the material on his user 
page gives the impression of a freshman psychology student who is very 
certain about how to fix people's problems

By raising this issue you've sent several of us to view his user page 
who otherwise would have ignored him completely.  That gives him a 
marketing benefit that he could not generate himself.  In reading his 
page I became completely turned off by his using "u" for "you", and the 
more I read the less I understood.  I think his marketing strategy is 
faulty.

Ec