User talk:InsideScience
September 2012[edit]
Hello, InsideScience. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about on Wikipedia, you may need to consider our guidance on conflicts of interest.
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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 14:30, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
InsideScience Contributions[edit]
Dear MrOllie, I am writing on behalf of the InsideScience project at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology but I am not representing any interests. My mission is only to make accesible proved science content. I apologize if my link contributions were misunderstood, perhaps you thought I am making publicity because I mencioned the project and the KIT on the contribution? Well, mencioning the KIT or the InsideScience project isn't absolutely necessary. Not at all! It is the content what is important. All our films are evaluated by independent public at film events (I can send you the results), scientific magazines like Spektrum der Wissenschaft (partner of Nature) and german scientific tv sites like hyperraum.tv are working with our content, there are also bloggers like Anke Schmid on knowciety.de who are speaking about our work. The Wikimedia Commons project via Mr. Daniel Mietchen has also asked for our scientific films and many will be uploaded soon. Please take a look at the film "Do robots go to heaven? A Journey through the future of robots in society" I hope you'll realize that video is a useful enhancement for the wikipedia articles about androids and humanoid robots.
I propose to publish the link without mentioning the authors. Just so:
Thanks in advance, InsideScience (talk) 16:17, 19 September 2012 (UTC)