User talk:Nycintern24

July 2010
This is the only warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you insert a spam link, as you did to Richard Burton, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. Spammers may have their websites blacklisted as well, preventing their websites from appearing on Wikipedia. — Gavia immer (talk) 13:40, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

As it has become apparent that your account will be used solely for unconstructive editing, you have been indefinitely blocked from editing in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest it by adding the text to this page. Kuru  (talk)  13:57, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Are you an intern with Harper-Collins? --Smashvilletalk 15:00, 13 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Urgent? We don't work on a deadline here. What link are you proposing that we add? And you still haven't answered my question about your affiliation with Harper-Collins. --Smashvilletalk 16:45, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, this appeared to be nothing more than cheap astroturfing-style online marketing with a link to a "buy now" page across many tangentally related articles. Mr. Case's adivce above is sound; adding material to articles and using the book as a reference is likely a better appraoch - but without the link to the corporate page. Would like to hear the answer on what link you were wanting to add. Kuru   (talk)  16:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Again, I am sorry for the mistakes I made earlier today. I understand your policies now, and I assure you I will not link the corporate website to any Wikipedia page in the future. Also, I will not be linking our books to any tangentially related articles. In response to your question, yes, I am an intern for HarperCollins Publishers. I am working in the sales and marketing departments. In response to the Steinbrenner page, I do not want to add any links to his page. If possible, I would like to add "Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball, by Bill Madden. ISBN: 9780061690310" under Further Reading. I am looking forward to hearing back from you. Nycintern24 (talk) 17:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Dear Wiki friends,

I am a HUGE Wiki fan, and Allison is doing this project for me. My intentions were mostly – to be candid - pure; to, as you say, improve the encyclopedia by giving your users easy access to free pages – good, unique content - from a book on the topic. Yes, the hope is that someone will then want the book, but as I know from my daily use of Wikipedia, I just like the vast info about famous lives, science, arts, sports…all of it, and that’s almost all I need. I don’t need the book. I had looked at other publishers’ book links already on Wiki and found some amazon links and I didn’t feel that was right. And we talked here and didn’t want to put a link to the book page here where there was a buy button; we just wanted to link to the browse inside pages. But we take your point, and with your permission, I hope we can proceed listing book title, author and isbn only, w/o publisher name and w/o link to any site, and then yes, when and if we found time, we’d ask each book’s editor to provide us with some facts from our books that would improve the content, but we’d like to take this a step at a time and stay in your good graces.

Carl Lennertz, VP Independent Bookstores. Nycintern24 (talk) 18:42, 13 July 2010 (UTC)