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A Wikipedia that was influenced by financial donations would have access to far more money than whatever you are claiming you would have donated. Imagine a Wikipedia where the willingness to donate was allowed to control content and discussions.
A huge number of people - far more than ever donate (and that's totally ok!) can actually afford 20 bucks or 20 euros or 20 pounds. I don't think we want to hint that not being able to afford to give is the only acceptable reason not to give - it's just, you know, if you want to give, and you can afford to give, then please do.--
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One fundamental reason is Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion #5, which includes the sentence: Those promoting causes or events, or issuing public service announcements, even if noncommercial, should use a forum other than Wikipedia to do so. More practical is what Andreas lays out in quite a lot of ...
The reason we're running the fundraiser into Christmas is that people will be more likely to donate at that time.-- Eloquence * 19:09, 2 November 2007 (UTC) [ reply ] Yes, people are more charitable at the very end of the year, but you'd have to bend over pretty far to also ignore the deficiencies of the ugly pink box and "terrorist" Wales .
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