User talk:CoinIndia

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Hello CoinIndia! Would you be the author of the CoinIndia website, as your username and recent edits would suggest? I have been a long admirer of your rich coin collection and photographs! If by any chance you would agree to license some of your photographs to Wikipedia (by permitting uploading under GDFL for example) we could use them more freely throughout the site and it would greatly contribute to editorial content. Best regards PHG 06:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello PHG! I too have been an admirer of your many contributions to Wikipedia. Thank you for your hard work and offering of your knowledge to the world community! I am still a novice on Wikipedia; for example, I'm not sure if this is the correct way to respond to your friendly message, nor am I sure how exactly to sign. I will slowly learn, and am of course very willing to be taught! As for the CoinIndia website, yes, indeed, I am the author of that, and I have always been willing for photographs from the site to be uploaded to Wikipedia. All the best, CoinIndia

Please feel free to ask should you have any questions (although I may not be available for querries during the next 2 or 3 days). I am looking forward to creating the Paratarajas article based in your numismatic material. If you're OK with it, I will upload a few of your coin images (like 5 or 6 of them) under the GDFL license, mentioning your agreement. Best regards, PHG 15:47, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi CoinIndia, OK for the licensing, I will do some uploading with "permission for use on Wikipedia by the copyrightholder". For the Paratarajas article, please go ahead with it! (at this point, all I know from them actually comes from your site, so you are in a much better position than I am to write about them! I will just do some cross-linking etc... from your article). I am really looking forward to it, because it might bring light to other connected subjects, such as the Western Satraps and the Kushans. Best regards PHG 09:26, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi CoinIndia, Since the Paratarajas historically seem to refer to a specific polity, with a lot of dedicated material (specific coins etc...) I think they should have a separate article from the Paradas. It will be OK though to have a a small paragraph on the Paratarajas within the Paradas, with a redirect to the main article:, which will look like: Main article: Paratarajas. Best regards PHG 10:05, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi
Hi CoinIndia. Long time no see! The image license for Image:Gondophares.jpg from your site is being challenged. You had kindly given me permission to use on Wikipedia while you retained other copyrights, but it seems that it is not enough as Wikipedia wishes to have free content only. It's your choice: if you accept to release the file under GDFL we can keep using it, otherwise, I am afraid it will have to be deleted from Wikipedia... I'll be waiting for your feedback! Cheers PHG (talk) 09:24, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi PHG! I just saw this query from you. If this is still an open question, I'm happy for my image of the Gondophares coin to be used by Wikipedia. CoinIndia (talk) 22:04, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Kanishka
Hey there, Belovedfreak, Just wondering why you undid my adding the link to an online catalogue of coins of Kanishka ... do take a look at the page I am linking to. I like to think it is in the best tradition of Wikipedia, at a level of detail too specific for Wikipedia itself. My aim is to inform and educate. Here's the link again: http://coinindia.com/galleries-kanishka.html CoinIndia (talk) 00:03, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Haven't heard back from you, so I am going to add that link again. Do take a look at it before deciding to cut it again. I think you will agree it is a useful addition. Thanks! CoinIndia (talk) 11:57, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Well thanks for giving me all of 12 hours to reply (which happened to be night time in my time zone) ;) To be honest, I can see that your making constructive edits to these articles. The problem as I see it is a) Wikipedia's not a link directory. If a website is really that useful, and reliable, use it as a source to make the article better and then cite it, rather than sending readers elsewhere to find a better version because our article isn't good enough. Bring the usefulness of the website into the article. And b) from your username, I presume that it is your own website you're adding which is a conflict of interest and problematic. That's why when you look at your contributions you can see them tagged as being a conflict of interest. There's nothing wrong with editing articles about topics you are interested in and knowledgable about; in fact - that's a good thing! But people will be suspicious of your motives when you're repeatedly adding links to your own website. I'm not going to remove it again but I urge you to examine your motives for adding links to your own website, and consider whether or not it's the most appropriate thing to do. It might be worth looking over External links, as well as the other pages I've linked here. By the way, if you need to reply, you can do so here & I'll watch your page for a little bit. Just another tip - make sure you post comments at the bottom of talkpages in the future. Otherwise, keep up the good work, which I think most of your edits are! Regards, -- Beloved  Freak  12:25, 6 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the thoughtful reply and for the kind words. Indeed, the links are to web pages that I myself have created, and I understand about the potential conflict of interest. My use of the same username demonstrates that I am not trying to hide that potential conflict. But my site is an educational one and my purpose is to inform and educate (I'm a college professor, so educating people is my life's work). It seems to me that the level of detail on my site's pages is too high for a Wikipedia page and yet useful for people who want to explore the numismatic aspects in greater detail. If I remember correctly, it was User:PHG who first started adding links to my site to Wikipedia articles and, since I had recently updated my pages and moved to a different site host, I thought I should update the links and add some new ones to pages I had recently created. So I honestly believe my links are appropriate. But I am open to alternative ways of doing things and will look at the links you provided for ideas. By the way, thanks also for being a "watchdog" on behalf of Wikipedia ... it's people like you who make the site one of the most valuable resources on the web. Regards, CoinIndia (talk) 13:31, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Welcome back CoinIndia, and I agree these links are extremely informative. Thank you for your knowledgeable contributions to Wikipedia! Best regards  Per Honor et Gloria  ✍  13:37, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello there, PHG, good to hear from you and thanks for the encouragement. I hope you saw the changes I made to the Paratarajas page ... reflecting the most recent research. I think in my inexperience I mucked up the references a bit on that page ... might you have the time to clean it up? I will take a look so I can learn how to do it correctly. Warm regards, 65.96.135.25 (talk) 15:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)


 * BelovedFreak, I took a look at the External links page you had suggested and saw two reasons mentioned there why providing the links was the way to go as opposed to incorporating the material into the Wikipedia page itself. One is the level of detail, which I have already mentioned. The second is that I am not ready to release into the public domain all the coin photos on my website. I wish to retain the copyright on those photos as I am working on a catalogue of Kushan coins. However, there is an alternative suggested there and I will think more about this ... to add a paragraph or two to the Wikipedia page and provide the link to my website as a source or footnote. Do you think that would be better? PHG, feel free to chime in on this as well. Thanks, and regards, 65.96.135.25 (talk) 15:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Hello, I presume that is you CoinIndia, signed out. I appreciate your replies and efforts to read the links I suggested. I do think that to add content to articles using references to outside sources is the way to go, but I'll leave it up to you. You're obviously on the right tracks. No need for anyone to chime in (as far as I'm concerned - obviously you can discuss it with whoever you like!). We're not "in dispute" here. Unfortunately there are many people who add links to their own websites here, many of which are very unreliable and add nothing to Wikipedia, but people do see it as a way of driving traffic to their site. This doesn't seem to be the case here, so I'll leave you to it! I'll take this page off my watchlist now, but if you need any help with anything just let me know. Regards, -- Beloved Freak  15:34, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi!!
Hello CoinIndia! It's nice to hear from you again! Please feel free to add your comments and new images at the Maurya Empire article. It is much better if you upload your coin images yourself at Wikipedia Commons, in order to avoid copyright challenges. Best regards!  Per Honor et Gloria  ✍  08:24, 2 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Hello CoinIndia. These are great additions! Thank you  Per Honor et Gloria  ✍  20:57, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Photo license
Hello CoinIndia! I hope everything is well. I added a license tag to one of your images, as we had discussed. To complete the paperwork, cound you kindly add a line with your wiki-signignature "I agree to license this image of mine under cc-by-sa-3.0". Best regards, and thank you for your generosity towards Wikipedia!!  Per Honor et Gloria  ✍  21:55, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you CoinIndia!  Per Honor et Gloria  ✍  12:15, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Nahapana
Hello CoinIndia! Please go ahead with any new information you might have! Best regards  Per Honor et Gloria  ✍  12:59, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Photo license
Hello CoinIndia! As per your agreement, another photograph of yours was uploaded. To complete the paperwork, cound you kindly add a line with your wiki-signignature "I agree to license this image of mine under cc-by-sa-3.0". Best regards, and thank you for your continuous generosity towards Wikipedia!!  Per Honor et Gloria  ✍  01:07, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

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