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external links to images and collections
Dear fellow librarian, as one of the administrators here let me give you some advice about this. Please be very careful in making external links to items in your collection. You are doing it well, but I think I should be a little explicit. The practice here is likely to be regarded by some people here as WP:SPAM, and if it is, the net result is likely to be that the entire library site will be put on our blacklist. This has already happened to one or two collections that were added too aggressively, and it has taken me considerable trouble to persuade people to reinstate them & I have not always succeeded--administrators here can only do what the consensus lets them do--we do not make policy. I am concerned that this will inhibit the usefulness of the encyclopedia, because we do want to link to the best material. Let me suggest:

1/In cases where your library does hold the best freely accessible collection in the world, then it is permissible to put in a link to the collection--I think the link to the Galapagos Collection is for example justified. But the practice here is only to link to the very few best possible sites--if you know of another site that is better, you should enter that one. In either case, you should put a note on the article talk page saying what you are adding and why, to prevent anyone from thinking you have a conflict of interest--see WP:COI. For example, I do not think the link for Playing House is sufficiently descriptive. (the information does not have to go within the link, iit is aceceptable to annotate the link briefly, as "[http:url XYZ Collection] of material on A. Please don;t go by what you see on the page necessarily--many of the present links have been added carelessly.  (Ideally one would say material "on A at the Wisconsin Digital Library," to be up front about it--the name of the special colection itself is usually meaningless.)

2/In cases where you hold an available primary text of the document being discussed, and can link to it directly, then it can make sense to add it, similarly to the way we link to such sites as Project Gutenberg. as an example, the link to the Plombal material seems appropriate. Again, you really should state this on the article talk page, and watch it for objections.

3/Where you have an good image, consider whether you can upload the file. The problem here is that we require a GFDL license for it, which is less restrictive than your standard license, as it permits reuse and modification by anyone for any purpose.

If you have any problems, just ask at my talk page or by email from my user page.DGG (talk) 03:59, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Reminder
What DGG wrote you two years ago is just as applicable now. In fact, I fear that you may need to be closed down if this latest spree doesn't stop, especially since your username is rather suspect. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  00:50, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

advice
I've looked at the latest group of additions, and I advise you as follows:
 * 1) for Antoine Desgodetz, move the 2 external links to the reproductions in your archive to be references in the section on the book. It would be a very good idea to translate the rest of the article in the deWP.
 * 2) For Johan Nieuhof, the link should be used as a reference to the publication information for the book, just like the above. Make clear its a translation.
 * 3) for Lorine Niedecker, I think using your link it as an EL was correct.
 * 4) for University of Wisconsin, add information about the Badger yearbook to the section on student publications, and use your link as a reference for that.
 * 5) For Ainu people]], your collection an appropriate external link, but it needs to be better described--it is not at all obvious that what it consists of is the full text of books in Japanese about the Ainu.  Some of the other links there need some explanation also--perhaps you will care to do so.

In general, take the opportunity not just to add the link or the reference, but to improve the article. I suggest you go back over earlier additions and do similarly also. I shall make these changes if you do not, but it is your responsibility, really. My responsibility, and that of my colleague OrangeMike, is advising you how to do it. I urge you to set a good example for other universities. Wisconsin does have extraordinary archival resources, and is one of the leaders in making them freely available. It will help the readers of the encyclopedia to have appropriate references to them, but they have to be appropriate. I am quite willing to check your references as being appropriate, and advise you accordingly, if you put them on the article talk page, and call my attention to them on my user talk or by email. Mike and I are not trying to keep the material out, but get it in properly when it should be added.

I very strongly urge you to select a new user name, say here on the user page what it is to maintain continuity, and explain on the user page your relationship to the university, giving the earlier user name. Adding material under this user name is not acceptable. Kindly choose one yourself-- either your real name, or any pseudonym you prefer that does not give the impression of being officially connected with the university. I think this part is critical, and I & Mike are each prepared to block the continued use of the present user name if you do not voluntarily choose another.  DGG ( talk ) 03:15, 5 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I have just been going through the earlier material. I trusted you to remove the inappropriate material, and you have never done so. I finally did it myself: In particular, for general articles, I removed your link to collections specific to Wisconsin only, as inappropriate emphasis. Where you linked to a copy of an historic document at  your site, and there was a copy at Internet Archive, I changed the link to that. Where you linked the same collection to many pages, I restricted it to the most relevant one. I am getting a little exasperated at this. Since the UW collections are publicly available on the web, it takes no special knowledge to add them; unless you show some signs of cooperation by fixing the recent material and changing user name, I am indeed going to block you. Consider this a final warning.    DGG ( talk ) 03:37, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

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