User talk:Jesus Cordero

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Dear Alex, thank you so much for your kind email and for lifting the block on my username Jesus Cordero.

Naive of me, I started opening my first user account as user arbolesdecentroamerica. It was blocked, then I read the rules which are fair enough so then I opened an account on my real name, which I used to do the same edits once more. So of course, the IP has to be the same. I manage from home the new website for Arboles de Centroamerica so my IP might be involved on that as well. I am not planning to use the username arbolesdecentroamerica any more so I do not care if this gets blocked or not. I do not really mind to do edits with my own name.

Please allow me to ask you two more questions: 1. Under username 'Jesus Cordero' will I be able to do (or at least propose) edits in the text content of the 199 species of the Arboles de Centroamerica book if I spot any accuracies, without getting blocked? (e.g. like the one I did to add Honduras, which you deleted and then you put back in) 2. Will I be allowed to change the links to the 199 pdfs of our book that are currently pointing in Wikipedia to the Oxford University herbaria server to the new homesite for the Arboles de Centroamerica book? 3. If changing these pdfs will block my account, what do I need to do? Should I contact the web administrator at Oxford to tell him to delete the pdfs, so that the Wikipedia links become obsolete? We have been told they would rather have this pdfs content out of the herbaria server for good, but David Boshier who is still working at Oxford and I have been telling them to keep it, precisely because important sites as wikipedia are still linking to it. This seems like a chicken and egg situation.

Thanks for your time Jesus
 * The edits you propose are acceptable, as long as it is backed by independent, verifiable, reliable sources. Also please understand that we are looking for verifiability, not truth. You were already pointed out to the conflicts of interest rules. Please make sure you read and understand them. We do want and need you to fix any inaccuracies. That is fine and welcome, as long as it is within the rules. Please remember to sign your posts in talk pages with four tildes (~) . -- Alexf(talk) 17:18, 20 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I would like to point out that there is an easy way to solve your problem.


 * Once you have all of your material transferred to the new site, AND the URL paths are similar on both sites (requiring only a simple substitution to change an old link to a new link), you can post a request at Bot requests to have a bot perform all the substitutions automatically.


 * Once that task has been completed, you can shut down the old site.


 * One other thing you can do is ask the old site administrator to redirect incoming HTTP requests to the new site. With .htaccess on an Apache server, it is possible to do this so that the requester receives the same page on the new site as it would have received from the old site. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:53, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

Thank you both. Actually, the idea of requesting a Bot requests would be fantastic! Yes, the pdfs in the new site will share a common url path.

The redirect option, I think the Oxford server administrator would prefer to finally get rid of the content and traffic but it is another option i can explore with him. Many thanks to both of you for your kind advice. Jesus Cordero (talk) 18:01, 20 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Redirects would not place a burden on the server because the server isn't having to deliver content, it would simply send a message back to the browser to find the content in a different place. A redirect is also search-engine-friendly, and will cause spiders to update their search databases instead of finding dead links. I don't see how the Oxford administrator would have a problem with this. Plenty of examples on how to do this can be found online, such as this one. ~Amatulić (talk) 19:51, 20 November 2012 (UTC)