User talk:Sciencewikipedian

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Specific rather than general links
Hi. Just linking to papers at our website will often get the ire of those who are vehemently opposed to vested interest. With your style of generic base linking to your website, rather than to a specific and relevant component you could also be in contravention to external links. As a published author, I am sure that you understand that for the encyclopaedia that we are producing the more accuracy is the better, and similarly all management of any vested interest. — billinghurst  sDrewth  21:29, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for the message. I fully understand your points, but I place a link to that webpage just to provide open access to primary source data, e.g. raw images collected during scientific research. These raw data are not accessible through specific links to the publishers' webpages, where the final (non-raw) papers are found... almost invariably as pay-to-read PDFs. If I place specific, direct links to the publishers' webpages on Wikipedia, most people outside from academia would not have a visual grasp of the cited research. I am happy to provide high-quality contents to Wikipedia, so feel free to suggest me the best way to deal with this issue! — Sciencewikipedian (talk) 13:44, 18 January 2019 (UTC)