User talk:Rotlink

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Thanks
Your work repairing and preventing dead links is greatly appreciated and welcome on Wikiversity, I am confident that I speak for this community on that. We are not, as you may have noticed, Wikipedia, and what we care about is the development of educational resources and learning-by-doing. Whatever fosters that without violating overall WMF policy is welcome here.

From other discussions of your work, I suspect that you are involved with archive.is. Almost all of the links you fixed, however, were to archive.org, your "competitor." I also do not mind links to archive.is; however, overall WMF policy now requires disclosure of Conflict of Interest. I think it would be very simple for you to disclose such COI on your user page here. It would not be anything that you have not done elsewhere.

And this is not an emergency, it simply could avoid possible problems from stewards who could decide to enforce the COI policy, cross-wiki.

Wikiversity also could opt out of that policy, but we haven't, and the discussion could take quite a bit of time and be disruptive in itself. Because we commonly allow people with COI to create educational resources here, and, indeed, we expect that experts may well have a COI in their field, and we welcome experts, and support them, our situation is very different from Wikipedia. Again, thanks for helping to maintain educational resources here. --Abd (discuss • contribs) 14:21, 11 August 2014 (UTC)