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WP:Directory and WP:External links
Hi. It is not the purpose of Wikipedia to undertake directory/boutique links to represented material. Typically all the EB data is reproduced at English Wikisource in its original nature, so linking to as it is and as it was isn't adding true value to the people articles. Thanks. — billinghurst  sDrewth  02:24, 1 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello . . . this is NOT reproducing the material but is offering brand new commentary ON that material from the leading scholars in the field. This is anything but "boutique" link. Once more, this is academic commentary from the scholars on the field. Gkblank (talk) 17:49, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Background: this is a brand-new website is from a university host. Once more, this is NEW academic scholarship just out this week. That it has been taken down is a little worrying. I hope the "added value" is in clear sight, and that is the point of the brand new commentary. Gkblank (talk) 17:58, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry, one more comment. I sent your response to some of the contributors to the site (some of whom themselves have substantial Wikipedia entries about them), hoping for advice. "Surely the reviewer/moderator doesn't get the site and how it works and, very importantly, what it does. Essentially, there is no difference between a collection of original critical essays and what the site does!" "How on earth can the reviewer say that it doesn't add 'true value' when these new, original essays offer cutting-edge, valuable commentary that no one has seen." "Take this to a higher level and really complain like crazy." "This happened to us once, and they got it right by re-instating the links to our archive." At this point, we are hoping for the latter. Thanks (G. Kim Blank, PhD, Professor, University of Victoria) Gkblank (talk) 20:12, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * You have again added links to a site that I reverted and which you had already queried and I had explained. Not a good look that you have just continued adding the links, would that be your instruction to your students? As a university professor you should be well aware of conflict of interest (the page to which you had already been directed and you have not addressed) and maybe I should throw in paid editing. We would love the editing to add true value to our encyclopaedic articles, but not with a conflict of interest, not with simply throwing in links to your site, instead having sources properly used to improve our articles, not simply as a pathway to your site. I find it dumbfounding that I have to explain these somple things to an intelligent person such as yourself. Remember, WP is not about your site, it is about building an encyclopaedia.

— billinghurst  sDrewth  10:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Besides your insulting tone and words (which reveals much), you clearly do not know what is going on. The site is NOT about me but about brand new scholarly commentary on significant poets made by some of the most important literary critics alive today--not by me (I am the unpaid editor and creator of the site--do you get it?). Honestly, what don't you get about this? There is no difference between my place in this this and the editor of a book of new critical essays on an important topic. So, listen to this if you can: for example, the site has brand new scholarly commentary about John Keats just written by a famous professor at Princeton and the world's expert on Keats (Susan Wolfson), and for some odd reason this is about me??? What is the "conflict of interest"? So, to repeat just once more: this brand new scholarly commentary offered by professors (many with endowed chairs) is indeed "true value"--what on earth could be more valuable than commentary on these important topics by the very top people in the field? Please answer that, and if you can, try to avoid the immature insults. Gkblank (talk) 23:44, 15 November 2023 (UTC)