User talk:Jonbrassey

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Hello, Jonbrassey, 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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In particular one should not add external links to websites/organisation one is a member of (instead propose on an article's talk page and let other users decide whether or not to incorporate into the article).

Whilst wikipedia is not here to direct the reader outwards to gain information (add content rather than external links), your system of collating EBM resources is intriging. For now please do not add links to your site onto mutilple articles as this will count as spamming. Instead, may I suggest you propose whether your site might be useful to the Clinical Medicine Wikiproject. If it were thought a useful external resource to use, then it probably should be added to articles not as a manual External link, but included in Template:Infobox Disease - I note for now though that your site gives links to several of the links already directly provided by this template, so a tertiary listings resource rather than the EBM sites themselves.

I have started a discussion thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine#Trip database links David Ruben Talk 17:08, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ATTRACT

Please do not repost speedily deleted material. This is considered vandalism and can lead to you being blocked from editing for a period of time. (aeropagitica) 20:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Sorry about re-posting the ATTRACT article. As there was no sign that it had been deleted I assumed I had forgot to save the article!
Why it was deleted? Ok it wasn't particularly great, but I was going back to add to it. Should I have indicated it was a 'stub'? ATTRACT is a significant contribution to clinical knowledge management and probably the oldest formalised Q&A service for primary care.--Jonbrassey 07:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

As I explained, the article was deleted because it was a repost of a previously-deleted article. That article was deleted because it was non-encyclopedic and instead read as blatant advertising or spam. (aeropagitica) 15:43, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

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NatusRoma | Talk 02:58, 18 October 2006 (UTC)