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February 2018

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add soapboxing, promotional or advertising material to Wikipedia, as you did at Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, you may be blocked from editing. Wikipedia does not exist to provide resources for trauma and PTSD. We are an encyclopedia that exist to provide factual coverage of notable subjects that are within our scope. Additions of resources without consensus is a form of soapboxing, and is disruptive. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:12, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, we seem to have crossed paths: sorry for the scary template: I did want to make a point though that systemically adding these resources across articles is a form of soapboxing, and is disruptive in my opinion. Also, I didn't realize you were a UNC faculty member. I'm an alumnus

. TonyBallioni (talk) 21:14, 16 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the thoughtful responses! I am grateful for the feedback. Fun to find the Carolina connection, too. I understand the concern about soapboxing, and as noted in the response on your talk page, we are pivoting to building a Wikipedia page like Doc James suggested. I am trying to figure out the best way to upload a screenshot of the traffic on Wikipedia yesterday -- five of the top 12 sites were clearly related to the shootings. I also stayed away from touching the page about the weapon, because I intuited that it would trigger a firestorm of response (no pun intended). Some of the research I do is leading me into the machine learning space, as well as looking at searches as an indicator of risk; so the idea of looking at page traffic to guide where to deploy information makes heaps of sense to me. I will be grateful for any guidance from you, Doc James, or any others with more experience than I in the Wikipedia community about how best to do this. Thanks, and looking forward to next steps! Prof. Eric A. Youngstrom (talk) 20:18, 17 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]