User talk:Michael Dominik Fischer

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Helveticat
Please explain to me how these links you're adding are relevant to an international readership. Thank you. Samsara (FA • FP) 13:21, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * The online catalog "Helveticat" of the Swiss National Library (NL) include Swiss publications and foreign publications dealing with Switzerland and its inhabitants as well as publications by Swiss authors that have been published abroad, including translations. I think it's helpful for the reader and researcher all around the world to find more bibliographic information about the Swiss authors in our collection. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael Dominik Fischer (talk • contribs) 10 October 2014‎
 * I think not in all cases is such a link useful, as it adds no new information to the already included selected list of publications and the more exhaustive lists of publications linked via the authority control links. See also Wikipedia's external link guidelines. -- ELEKHHT 01:45, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * While this is obviously a serious and possibly useful resource (though mostly I agree with the other comments above), I suggest removing these links. They appear to fall foul of exclusion criterion 9 at WP:ELNO, "Any search results pages, such as links to individual website searches, search engines, search aggregators, or RSS feeds". Repeatedly adding external links, even if they are in themselves reliable, can be seen as Spam, and may be unpopular. Also, since you declare a connection to the library, may I ask you to read our guidelines at Conflict of interest? I hope you will find other ways to contribute to Wikipedia. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:58, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree that not in all cases the links to the database “Helveticat” are useful. But in the vast majority of cases the links add more bibliographic information to the articles. The links can be very helpful for all the readers and researchers who want to find more information about the Swiss authors. In the catalog of the Swiss National Library they can not only find literature about the Swiss authors, but also the literary estates from many of them, including unpublished manuscripts, diaries, letters, personal items et cetera. To have access to this collections could be very interesting for some of the Wikipedia users. Therefore I suggest you to decide case by case if the links to the database “Helveticat” are useful and relevant for an international readership or not. To treat all of them in general as a spam can’t be in the interest of all the users. --Michael Dominik Fischer (talk) 11:50, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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