User talk:Letterx

John Anthony Thwaites
Welche Deutsche Zeitung zitieren Sie? Xanthoxyl (talk) 07:45, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The Name of the paper was indeed 'Deutsche Zeitung'. It was then bought by 'Christ und Welt' to become 'Deutsche Zeitung - Christ und Welt' which was again bought up by 'Rheinischer Merkur'. letterx

July 2012
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to John Anthony Thwaites. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include (but are not limited to) links to personal web sites, links to web sites with which you are affiliated, and links that attract visitors to a web site or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the article, please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 14:25, 20 July 2012 (UTC)


 * REPLY:

This concerns ref. No 4 on John Anthony Thwaites which reads: "cited in Eickhoff, translated by Anthony Thwaites ...". I added a link to the name 'Anthony Thwaites', that leads to a page with a short biografical note on Anthony Thwaites, the natural son of John Anthony Thwaites. My opinion: if it is okay to have the name 'Anthony Thwaites' appear in a Wikipedia article, I believe it is not wrong to give people a chance to look up: who is 'Anthony Thwaites'. Especially as researchers on John Anthony Thwaites might want to contact his son. letterx 21 July 2012
 * You have to understand that posting an external link to your own site is looks like spamming. See: Links normally to be avoided and SPAM. Whenever there are obvious conflicts of interest or controversial postings, and it is controversial when another editor objects, you should discuss it in the article's talk page and get consensus. -- Alexf(talk) 11:06, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I have tried to argue in my reply. You haven't responded to my argument. I believe that consensus building cannot mean that any editor has a right of veto to any change - without argument. I have already posted on the article's talk page. From what you're saying your objection mainly comes from a similarity you observed between my wikipedia username and the domain name of the website in the link under discussion. While this may give you pause the appropriateness of an edit cannot depend on who makes it. I've looked at the links you posted and don't find anything there that clearly applies in the case at hand. - letterx 22 July 2012
 * After 11 days there have been no further comments either here or on the talk page of John Anthony Thwaites. So I've now reverted the revert made by alexf hoping that this is no longer controversial. - letterx 08:00, 2 August 2012 (UTC)

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