User talk:Hjl7

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Please do not add advertising or inappropriate external links to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a mere directory of links nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that exist to attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam policies for further explanations of links that are considered appropriate. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. JFW | T@lk 15:14, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello. I do apologize if you found my link too commercial. I just felt that what I linked to is a valuable resource for hardworking scientists who desperately need funding.

Would you please reconsider your attitude? I meant no harm. I am simply trying to alert hardworking researchers to funds that might help them in their work.

Thank you for your trouble and I do admire the work you do and am sorry to have caused you trouble. But I would appreciate it if you would reconsider. The list of funding sources seemed to need some beefing up and the site I linked to links to dozens of foundations and grants that Wikipedia users looking for funding for medical research could benefit from learning about.

Hjl7 (talk) 16:36, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I received your email. As I suspect you may have gathered, the above message is a standardised template that does not reflect my personal opinion of the hard work you are putting in, or indeed the aims of ScanGrants itself. It is clear from the site that no commercial interest is being served.

However, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and serves the needs of the general readership rather than the specific aims of hardworking researchers (who I know spend far too much time having to justify their work to funding bodies and agencies, rather than conducting the research they are capable of doing). For the same reasons, our external link guidelines frown on other types of targeted links.

You are always free to approach other Wikipedians to see if they take a different view on this matter, but I suspect you'll get a fairly similar reply. I notice that you left a message on Talk:Research funding. I suggest waiting on responses there, or perhaps approaching editors who have edited that page previously. JFW | T@lk 19:25, 8 June 2008 (UTC)