User talk:EAU Patient Information
There have been two problems with this account: the account has been used for advertising or promotion, which is contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia, and your username indicates that the account represents a business or other organisation or group, which is also against policy, as an account must be for just one person. Because of those problems, the account has been blocked indefinitely from editing.
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{{unblock|Your reason here}} at the bottom of your talk page, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. Widr (talk) 15:35, 15 September 2016 (UTC)Welcome
[edit]Hello there. Would you please review Wikipedia:External_links#Advertising_and_conflicts_of_interest? Your user name and your edits strongly suggest you are editing Wikipedia in a manner that is not widely appreciated around here. I did preserve one of your external links by formatting it correctly, but you will annoy people if you are simply trying to drive web traffic instead of actually trying to improve the prose of articles. Would you please consider sticking around, and perhaps taking a look at the discussions at WT:MED or the project page at WP:MED? Thanks. Sorry to offer a criticism on your first contributions. That tends to be the way new editors are welcomed around here. =) Thank you. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 15:39, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
- Holy hell Widr. Can we please just assume some good faith and unblock? I thought what they added actually improved the encyclopedia and I wp:preserved it. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 15:40, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
Your blocking
[edit]Hello EAU account. I have started a discussion thread about your blocking at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#European_Urological_Assocation. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 15:51, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello Biosthmors. Thank you for your message. I was under the assumption that adding an external link in the external link section is allowed. We are a non-profit organization - European Association of Urology. All our material is freely accessible. Our patient information is based on the EAU Guidelines on urological cancers and urological diseases, which are evidence-based and non biased. Our aim is to disseminate patient information to patients throughout Europe in their native language. No commercial gain intended. Esther Robijn on behalf of EAU Patient Information EAU Patient Information (talk) 17:28, 15 September 2016 (UTC)(i.e. {{U}})
- Pinging Biosthmors, as a ping will not work unless a signature is added in the same edit. -- Gestrid (talk) 17:37, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello Biosthmors. If we need to adjust the format please advise. EAU Patient Information (talk) 17:47, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
- EAU would you be willing to release your patient handouts under a CC BY SA 3.0 license? Would make it easier to support linking. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 20:46, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hello Esther. Thank you for coming here to spread good free information. By the way, you are completely free to remain anonymous on Wikipedia if you prefer. If you (or another person you work with) do not mind making another account, I'd recommend doing that and just letting this account remain stale. The problem with the name of this account is that it appears explicitly designed to spread EAU-centered info. That's not necessarily bad, of course, because you guys appear to have great information. It just puts a bad taste in people's mouths. If you want to publicly edit Wikipedia under your real name you could make an "Esther (EAU)"-named account, for example. That way it looks like 1) it's just one person editing and 2) you're open about your affiliation. Both of those things are welcomed around here. After you've recreated an account, please first post a thread at WT:MED before adding any more external links that go to EAU. (I know, it might sound a little silly doing this, but I hope you see the wisdom.) An independent, third-party editor will review them first and then incorporate them into the article if they find them to be improvements. You can also contact me further directly at my talk page: User talk:Biosthmors. Best wishes and happy editing! (Doc James is a big promoter of Wikipedia things and has a suggestion about licensing but don't worry about that being a "rule" around here to get a website linked. I'm sure you've noticed there are plenty of non-open access licensed websites that are linked on Wikipedia.) Thanks again for your contributions. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 00:56, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
Hello [User:Biosthmors|Biosthmors] [User talk:Doc James|talk], thank you for your message, and my apologies for not familiarising myself enough with the 'rules of engagement'on Wikipedia beforehand. I hope you realise there was no ill intend. I will follow your directions and create another account under my own name. Just to be sure, am i allowed to link to our patient information website in the external links section, or add a small section in the body of the text without problems? I will also look into Doc James' suggestion regarding licensing, thank you James. {{U}}[Special:EmailUser/Doc James|email] EAU Patient Information (talk) 09:05, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Esther. I just saw the message here. Sorry about that as it's difficult for new editors to learn all the ways of Wikipedia software. It's not a good idea for you yourself to add the info as "in line with Wikipedia policies, you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent—even if Wikipedia guidelines seem to imply that it may otherwise be linked", per WP:ADV). The strategy around that is to ask someone else to add it for you. You could email me a short list, let's say of 10 links you think would benefit Wikipedia and I could check them out and include them for you. If you could format them like this:
*[http://patients.uroweb.org/i-am-a-urology-patient/urinary-incontinence/ Patient-centered information] from the European Urological Association, how I formatted the link at urinary incontinence, then I could more easily incorporate them into the articles. =) My email is simply my username at gmail dot com. I give you that option as I imagine it would be easier than asking you to go to WT:MED and asking for help there, but that is a very valid option as well. We could start from there. Thanks. Biosthmors (talk) pls notify me (i.e. {{U}}) while signing a reply, thx 16:39, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
- Hi Esther. I just saw the message here. Sorry about that as it's difficult for new editors to learn all the ways of Wikipedia software. It's not a good idea for you yourself to add the info as "in line with Wikipedia policies, you should avoid linking to a site that you own, maintain, or represent—even if Wikipedia guidelines seem to imply that it may otherwise be linked", per WP:ADV). The strategy around that is to ask someone else to add it for you. You could email me a short list, let's say of 10 links you think would benefit Wikipedia and I could check them out and include them for you. If you could format them like this: