I added a link to Wikipedia yesterday, and today got a message from a user saying that I cannot add any commercial or personal weblog links to Wikipedia, as it’s not an external links directory.

On top of that, their revision of the page was named “rv spam”, short of “removing spam.” I use Wikipedia regularly, and it seems to be a cat and mouse game where my articles or information about different sides of history or a topic keep getting edited and changed by others. It’s childish to go back and keep re-adding information to make it appear on the main page, even though every revision of the page is saved so that people can look at the previous version of any page.

Because of this cat and mouse chase, many Universities do not allow any citations or information from Wikipedia; my university does not allow any student to cite from this resource either. I see several other links in the articles by people who add them back. Do I add my links back in order to show those who removed it that they can’t promote their own agendas and that this site needs to be open to everyone, or do I simply forget about it and hope that people will think on their own and the very principle that Wikipedia was founded on, that all humans will hopefully not abuse the system and that others can patrol such abusers, assuming that these patrollers won’t abuse the system themselves, will be kept intact? Oh well, I’ll forget about it.