User talk:Rexswain

August 2022
When adding links to material on external sites, as you did to Spreadsheet, please ensure that the external site is not violating the creator's copyright. Linking to websites that display copyrighted works is acceptable as long as the website's operator has created or licensed the work. Knowingly directing others to a site that violates copyright may be considered contributory infringement. This is particularly relevant when linking to sites such as YouTube or Sci-Hub, where due care should be taken to avoid linking to material that violates its creator's copyright. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

If you believe the linked site is not violating copyright with respect to the material, then you should do one of the following:
 * If the linked site is the copyright holder, leave a message explaining the details on the article Talk page;
 * If a note on the linked site credibly claims permission to host the material, or a note on the copyright holder's site grants such permission, leave a note on the article Talk page with a link to where we can find that note;
 * If you are the copyright holder or the external site administrator, adjust the linked site to indicate permission as above and leave a note on the article Talk page;

If the material is available on a different site that satisfies one of the above conditions, link to that site instead. MrOllie (talk) 21:56, 17 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi. I apologize.  I am a life-long software developer, but I am a newbie to Wikipedia.
 * Are you referring to the links to https://books.google.com ? I had assumed material on that site was okay to link to.  If I am wrong about that, would you please let me know?
 * Are you referring to the link to https://www.rexswain.com/ ?  That PDF was clipped from https://archive.org/ which I again thought was okay.  I clipped the relevant pages and made a PDF from them, hosted on my personal web site.  Is that the problem -- the hosting?  Would it be okay if I linked to archive.org directly?  (That would make it more complex for the reader to jump from page 1 to page 8.)
 * It was all 40 years ago -- two lifetimes in the software world!
 * Thanks for your attention to this. /Rex Swain Rexswain (talk) 22:21, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Spreadsheet. 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 websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website 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 page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it. Thank you. Alexf(talk) 00:33, 18 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Could you have a look at my reply from yesterday? I am trying to do the right thing here.  Is it the link to my personal website that is bothering you?  How about if I link to archive.org instead? Rexswain (talk) 14:01, 18 August 2022 (UTC)