User talk:Dartinia

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Hello, Dartinia, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate encyclopedic contributions, but some of your recent contributions seem to be advertising or for promotional purposes. Wikipedia does not allow advertising. For more information on this, please see: If you still have questions, there is a new contributors' help page, or you can. You may also find the following pages useful for a general introduction to Wikipedia: I hope you enjoy editing Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Doug Weller talk 20:21, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
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Please don't add self-published books to articles
Thanks. Doug Weller talk 20:23, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

Edit Removal / Bibliography, Further reading
Dartinia (talk) 13:24, 27 April 2019 (UTC)Dear Mr. Weller,

Re.: Dartinia / https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terminology&action=history

I have been redirected to this Talk Page New Section by Mr. Robert Johnson in order to reach you.

This is simply in reference to some Bibliographies and Further Reading sections of about six articles connected to the history of writing.

I understand my added entry was removed under the Wikipedia policy of not accepting self-published works. Indeed, the book, as it is published by Lulu and FriesenPress, is a 2014 self-published work, and Wikipedia is not an advertising platform.

I feel, however, I may write to you because Mr. Johnson’s mail includes the following proviso: “unless there is an exceptional reason to retain it [= the added bibliographical entry]”.

For Wikipedia's reason to reject it, I would simply like to be told that a minimum of cross-checks has been made in at least three places, for otherwise, I would be at a loss as to what constitutes an “exceptional reason”. Please, allow me to suggest three Google sources where my proposed entry (book title “Termcraft”) can be quickly assessed:

1. - A full description of the contents, by googling "linguist list termcraft"

2. - Three assessments by the author’s peers, Dr. L. G. Kelly, Darwin College (University of Cambridge, U.K.), Dr. Christian Galinski, Infoterm (Vienna, Austria), and Prof. E. Taljard, Department of African Languages (University of Pretoria, South Africa), by googling “friesenpress termcraft”

3. - A U.S. five-star review, by googling “review of termcraft”

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,

Dartinia

Dartinia (talk) 13:24, 27 April 2019 (UTC)