User talk:JohnWarnock

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And thanks for the book links
John, thanks for the Newton book links. Nice to see you on wikipedia. Dicklyon 16:41, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

spam
hey, don't spam pages with your website. please remove the links from the pages.

I removed the spam from the pages. please don't add it again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.114.69.206 (talk • contribs)


 * John, he's right. If all you do is add links to your sites, you look like a conventional spammer.  The first couple of links to full books were OK, but some of your links seem obviously to be just promoting your site.  That's not an acceptable behavior on wikipedia, and is the kind of thing I spend a lot of time reverting myself. Dicklyon 21:16, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

regarding spam
I made the rarebookroom.org site as purely an educational exercise. There is no commercial aspect to it.

I made links from Wikipedia entries of great people Newton, Galileo, Hooke,Shakespeare, Mendel to explicit first editions of their work.

In the case of Shakespeare, I linked to the Quartos of Shakespeare from the Bodleian Library, the British Library, The National Library of Scotland, the and the Edinburgh Library. The introduction to the quartos was written by Gail Pastor (the Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library). These images are not currently available anywhere else.

In no case did I link to the home page of the Rarebookroom site (although others have), and others have linked to other parts of the rarebookroom site.

I guess it was my mistaken impression that full digital images of the first editions would be valuable to the wikipedia reader.

I will leave it to others to add links to what I believe is a very valuable resource. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnWarnock (talk • contribs)


 * John, I don't think you're mistaken, but the guidelines at WP:EL say that since it's your site you have a conflict of interest in deciding. I recommend that other editors take a look and decide which links to add. I restored one to Opticks already.  Feel free to propose them on article talk pages.  Thanks again for making these wonderful books available for inspection. Dicklyon 19:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC)