http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents/Getting_started

If you want to add something to Wikipedia, just do it. The #1 guideline is that it should be material that belongs in an encyclopedia, verifiable fact and original material. If you see commercial PR, you can either try to rewrite it or just delete it. Just make sure to write a short justification in the edit summary. Make sure you read the discussion page for an article you are editing. Don’t worry, if you screw up someone else can revert the page. I think it’s also better to make small incremental edits, than to rewrite an entire page in one shot (but sometimes it’s called for).

If you would like to add an article on Wizop: I would suggest creating a Wikipedia username and logon. Then do a search for Wizop, when nothing comes up you can click “create this article”. Go ahead and link to your site, but it would be good etiquette to disclose the possible conflict of interest on the discussion page.

Anyway deepthought is right when he said that you won’t get banned for removing links. “With enough eyes all bugs are shallow.” Although that is meant to describe open source, that phrase exemplifies what powers Wikipedia too.

My point is that you should dive in and do it. If you act in good faith and communicate with the other editors then you will have no problems.

I had learned a lot about wikipedia before as I tend to delve into things but thanks to illness I really don’t retain much of what I’ve done for the past few years without repeating it an extreme amount.

So the question is, is there any way to contribute without devoting a portion of my life to going over the rules and practices time and time again? Even if it’s just flagging something that I think is highly questionable material, is there a simple way to do that?

It’s an invaluable resource and sometimes I see things I’d like to add missing material to or sometimes I come across pages that really frustrate me as I feel they have no place there such as some of the obviously commercial pr that might fly under the radar of others. Unfortunately I don’t have the time it would take me these days to invest in learning what should be a simple matter for someone that’s been online long enough to have been a CIS Wizop and later a news editor for a few big sites in the mid 90s. Sadly, there’s no entry I can even find involving the term wizop or any variant thereof, but we were the people in charge of the forums that made up Compuserve. But as I said, I wouldn’t know where to begin adding my knowledge of the intracacies and hierarchies that made that service tick.

Is this tearing down wikipedia? No.

As to removing wiki links, I prefaced it with my thoughts on the matter (’I'm not sure I agree with this…’). And, I don’t think removing links would get you banned unless you were removing relevant content links.

A lot of SEO is shady. Like many things, this could be used for good or bad. Either way, tearing down the wiki is a little much. Besides, I believe in Karma — I wrote a whole new page for wikipedia. Everybody wins.

As for removing internal Wiki links, well that really sucks. Doing crap like that is likely to get you banned from Wikipedia. It’s not a good idea and it will not help your page rank.

Why not spend your time building up original content on your website, instead of tearing down Wikipedia?

Here's a good SEO tip about using wiki for SEO. In fact, I use this one myself. Wikis contain vital information about specific topics. The idea behind a wiki is to have a repository of user editable encyclopedia (wikipedia)…….

I have added links to wiki pages from other wiki pages (where appropriate), and I have written completely new pages. In both cases I haven’t done academic research on the subject, but it might be that academic research isn’t really apprpropriate. Editing in wikipedia is so easy, its a wonder why it isn’t a mess of crap.