Talk:The English Secretary

Converting external links to bibliographic references
Per Wikipedia policy, a link to an offering of a book for sale is not an appropriate inline citation. I am converting a link to a bookstore into a bibliographic reference. Belastro (talk) 18:33, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Under external links is now found this link: The English Secretorie at Folger Shakespeare Library. That link itself is dead. Investigation discovers that the Library catalogue has a catalog item for this book: https://catalog.folger.edu/record/412614?ln=en That catalog item links to Proquest, which maintains a subscription paywall, for access to a copy: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2240922332/?accountid=10923 Thus, this path leads to a proquest page that cannot be viewed by most users.

Because this link is rotten; because a revived link would only go to a catalog entry; and because that catalog entry links to a subscription paywall for actual access to the book, I am removing this external link and (1) providing an inline bibliographic reference for the first edition (1586) and (2) and an external link to the EEBO/TCP html version of that book. Belastro (talk) 19:53, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

Under external links is now found this link: Angel Day, The English Secretary (1599) at Brigham Young University. That link itself is dead at a long dormant site. Investigation discovers that there is information about this book on the site. Unfortunately, the site is frame based; thus, a distinct URL for that information cannot be given: it can be reached only by navigating through search results. The book itself is not to be found there; instead, there is a bare list of terms, names for different tropes and schemes, reduced from a latter section of the book.

Because this link is rotten; because a revived link cannot be established; because the link does not lead to a copy of the book itself, I am removing this external link and (1) providing an inline bibliographic reference for the same edition (1599) and (2) and external links to (a) a scanned copy at Gallica and (b) the Gutenberg Project html version of that book.