User talk:Goshgollygeewhiz

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Patrons & Performances
Hi. You appear to be adding an awful lot of links to this Patrons & Performances website in the external links of a lot a places in England. I've looked at a few and I can't see how they're relevant to warrant inclusion on these articles. I'm minded to go through and undo the lot, but I thought I ought to engage you beforehand. Cheers. Dancarney (talk) 15:44, 9 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree. These appear to breach our guidelines on minimizing external links. Wikipedia is not a collection or directory of links, nor should it be used for promotion. --Jza84 | Talk  16:00, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Hi, "Goshgollygeewhiz" here. Firstly, it certainly was not my intention to annoy/irritate, etc, nor to post irrelevant external links or other web garbage. The "Patrons and Performances" Web Site is part of an academic, non-commercial research project at the University of Toronto called "Records of Early English Drama", whose goal is to document incidents of dramatic activity throughout all of England leading up to the Reformation in 1642. The links I have been requested to add, by my colleagues, are locations where some form of said activity occurred, and this ties into our published volumes.

Secondly, before you go ahead and delete the links which I have been putting up, may I request that you at least e-mail the person who is spearheading this effort, Mr. Jason Boyd. His e-mail address is jason.boyd@utoronto.ca.

Many thanks for your messages, and again it was not my intention to annoy anyone at Wikipedia.

Cheers, Gord Oxley (gord.oxley@utoronto.ca)
 * I've been contacted by Jason Boyd on my talk page about this, where I have responded. I feel that the best way to include your information is not to just add links, but to add content (perhaps to the Culture section of a town's article) using your site as a linked source. Dancarney (talk) 06:57, 10 October 2008 (UTC)