User talk:Lsell@duke.edu

I do not think adding a link to Randy Weston's forthcoming autobiography or updating links to Ariel Dorfman's available books is "advertising." Surely the fact that Weston has written a new autobiography is relevant to his listing? Surely Wikipedia wants bibliographies to be up-to-date? Lsell@duke.edu (talk) 19:14, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it might be prudent for someone who is unaffiliated with the publisher to make such updates. Again, see WP:COI. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 23:10, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

June 2010
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