User talk:Theobald~enwiki

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your, but for legal reasons, we CANNOT accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material.

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Hello Lucky 6.9,

I'm actually the owner of the copyrighted information. Does that make a difference?

-Matt

ISEN is not yet suitable for a Wikipedia article
Matt, I am copying here a message that was previously left on the talk page of 24.166.27.241.

Recently I noticed your addition of the ISEN to the ISBN article. A quick Google search suggested to me that the ISEN is so far just a patent and not even a standards proposal, and that there are no publicly-visible items on the web that carry an ISEN. Please correct me if I'm wrong. The usual Wikipedia standards for notability (WP:N) require:


 * "In order to have a verifiable article, a topic must be notable enough that it will be described by multiple independent sources. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate directory of businesses, websites, persons etc."

Looking at WP:SPAM, we also find this item:


 * "4: Don't make a new article for your own product or Web site. Most often, when a person creates a new article describing his or her own work, it's because the work is not yet well-known enough to have attracted anyone else's attention, much less verifiable sources. Articles of this sort are known as vanity pages and are usually deleted."

Wikipedia does indeed have articles about popular products and Web sites, but it is not acceptable to use Wikipedia to popularize them. It's possible that the work on ISEN will be useful, and will end up having an impact, but it does not seem to me that it meets Wikipedia's standards yet.

I'll add just one further comment. Those of us who watch the ISBN page particularly dislike it if new proposed index numbers are added that are are so far just a gleam in someone's eye. We want that page to be useful to librarians. At present, no librarian can look anything up by an ISEN.

Please discuss further if you disagre. EdJohnston 13:37, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello, all,

There are some databases that have naiscent ISENs assigned at http://demo.isen.org They are not active yet. So, it is premature to say that ISENs are being assigned. It has been a vanith exercise so far. I hope that ISEN will eventually meet Wikipedia's standards.

Kind Regards,

Matt Theobald

ISEN discussion
Hey Matt, thanks for your reply. You can leave any further comments at User_talk:EdJohnston. It is more convenient to have comments put there rather than on my user page. To identify your words, add a signature by typing four tildes ~ at the end. These will automatically expand into your username plus the date and time. EdJohnston 14:57, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

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Hello,

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