User talk:Gemwise

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Hello, Gemwise, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I note that your username is identical to this blog and that your edits seem to be slanted toward promoting the book, "Secrets Of The Gem Trade", and associated website. We welcome your expertise in editing, but please use caution regarding the promotion of any product or website you may be affiliated with (please review WP:Spam and WP:OR). Thank you, Vsmith 02:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Vsmith, I am new to this page and not sure how the posting works but let me respond. The book; Secrets of The Gem Trade, promotes a contrarian point of view in the connoisseurship of gems and my posts promote or support the same point of view. I have posted the reference for those who wish to read more. In some cases this material is online and free. It seems to me reasonable to add the book to the reference section where appropriate.

RW

Thanks for the response. However, please consider carefully the No original research policy and use published sources other than, or in addition to, your own book for references (Citing only your book would appear to be self-promotion). If there are no other sources supporting your contrarian view, then those edits may need to be removed. Also, please read WP:NPOV and use caution when writing about your point of view. Vsmith 12:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
I have removed your edits as either self promotional and/or original research. You are welcome to edit, but please follow policy guidelines. Vsmith 00:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Vsmith, I see that you have removed everything I added. Some was promotional, my apoligies. However, much of the material on quality in gemstones is necessarily without objective foundation, that is, if such a foundation must be measurable in some scientific way and is, therefore only an opinion. Seems like your approach to "no original research" includes both published and non-published if the author of the published material is making the contribution. My book is virtually the only book on the subject of quality in gems so much of my material has not, by definitin, been published elsewhere. I say modestly, I am one of the recognized experts in that field. (I wonder what you might have said to Galilleo were he alive and tried to make an "original" contribution. Given the rules, Wikpedia would still be promoting a flat world view) Much of what I might write would be, by definition, unsupported by other publications. Therefore I see little use in making any additional contributions. If it is not already posted you will construe it as orignal and delete it and if it is "my point of view" then it is "promotional" and you will delete it. Sorry, don't believe I have any wiggle room.

Richard