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--- blankfaze <blankfaze at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have just noticed
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GordonWattsDotCom
> ... 
> It seems to me to be somewhat inappropriate to
> create a username advertising 
> a personal website, but I didn't see anything in the
> Wikipedia username 
> policy (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username )
> that says 
> anything about adverts...
> 
> So I thought I'd pose the issue to the mailing list,
> see what you all think.

Mr. Watts HAS been inserting links to his personal
website in the [[Terri Schiavo]] article, but his
personal website is a geocities page, and not
gordonwatts.com.  I don't know if there realy is a
gordonwatts.com, I haven't bothered to find out.

RickK



		
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