User talk:Richardaedwards

Daniel Bigelow
Hi, and thanks for contributing to the Bigelow House and Bigelow Neighborhood articles. I hope you don't mind if I move the information you added regarding Daniel Bigelow and create a new article out of it. – Freechild ( ¡!¡!¡!¡ ) 23:11, 17 July 2007 (UTC) Great new article on Daniel Bigelow! Glad you found the information from our library useful. – Richardaedwards ( ¡!¡!¡!¡ ) 18 July 2007

Presentation
WikiGnomes don't do public speaking. And although I'm trying to help you, (assuming good faith and all that) I don't condone your behavior, so I wouldn't be comfortable participating in something like that. What you are doing is against Wikipedia policy, even if no one has blocked you like they did the intern from the Archives of American Art. Until the policy is changed or modified, it's still spamming, and you seem to have ignored my suggestion to contact a WikiProject. Until you're more interested in doing more for Wikipedia than just adding links, I think you'll be hard-pressed to find someone to join your presentation, but I'd suggest you ask at WikiProject Oregon or WikiProject Spam and see if someone local is interested. If you want to comment on the essay, BTW, you certainly can do so on the essay's talk page. Good luck. Katr67 01:16, 13 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I do appreciate the help. In truth I was hoping for someone to participate in the presentation to explain the Wikipedia point of view as a counterpoint to the institutional view for adding such links. I would hope that, as with most complex issues, multiple points of view could be shared with civility and politeness (which you have done so well that I thought you might wish to continue to express your views in person) so that the issues would be understood by those attending even if no agreement is reached.


 * I haven't ignored your suggestion to contact a WikiProject, but rather knowing nothing about them simply haven't had the time to read up on them and figure out how to approach it, having been less than 24 hours since I first heard the term. And while I agree that I could post comments on the essay, I want to take the time to do so thoughtfully and time is difficult to find (which is another reason why I don't usually add information directly to Wikipedia articles).


 * What I did after your previous comments was cease adding further links [see below for revisions to my citation format that resulted during the pause]. I begin to understand the reasons you consider such links "spam" and I hope to engender a discussion among librarians and Wikipedia editors as to whether the value of such links to the user outweighs the issue of being considered "spam". My attempt to engage someone on the Wikipedia side to speak before a group of technical librarians is honestly a hope to make the issues known and understood, not to resolve them in favor of institutions.


 * Again, thank you for your time and thoughts. Richardaedwards 14:33, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Primary Sources versus Spam
I have come to understand several of the arguments concerning treating links from libraries or museums as promotional "spam" and while I would like to add a few more links for what I consider to be valuable primary materials to appropriate articles, I now think it best to NOT include the organizational name or collection which does seem mostly promotional in nature.

The primary material citation should stand as sufficient identification for the user who can then decide to follow the link to the full text of the work or not, as they deem best.

So, for any links I add in the future, I will use this format:



I have removed the "others" field of "Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection" from my template.

I know that there are still concerns about librarians adding links instead of editing the articles directly and adding links to their own resources, but given the value of these few unique primary resources and the lack of branding in the citations, but I hope this is seen as an improvement.

I will continue to be glad to discuss the issues further in hopes of providing the best information possible to the users of Wikipedia.

Richardaedwards 20:21, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Watson Squire
Image:WCSquire.jpg: The image is from "Governors of Washington: Territorial and State" by Edmond S. Meany. Published by the University of Washington in 1915 hence the date attribution. A digital version is available at the Washington State Library's website at http://sos.wa.gov/history/publications_detail.aspx?p=30 Richardaedwards 2 June 2010

Image:WCSquire.jpg: could you be clearer on the source? You say it's from 1915, so I'm guessing that it is from somewhere in particular. - Jmabel | Talk 21:53, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

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