User talk:Wooster12

May 2022
Hello, I'm Serols. I wanted to let you know that one of your recent contributions—specifically this edit to Doublure (bookbinding)—has been undone because it appeared to be promotional. Advertising and using Wikipedia as a "soapbox" are against Wikipedia policy and not permitted; Wikipedia articles should be written objectively, using independent sources, and from a neutral perspective. Please take a look at the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Help desk. Thank you. Serols (talk) 14:48, 13 May 2022 (UTC)


 * Hello, please note Weblinks - no links in the flowtext. --Serols (talk) 14:49, 13 May 2022 (UTC)

Bookbindings and manuscripts
Hello Wooster12! With the above, Wikipedia's guidelines advise that links to external websites should either be used as references or included in the 'external links' section you find at the bottom of most articles. You might sometimes see links to other websites in the 'body' of Wikipedia articles (ie: the main text itself) but best practice is to only include links to other Wikipedia articles in the body.

With that in mind I was thinking for the articles below you could try...


 * 1) Ignatz Wiemeler – Creating an 'external links' section after the references section and include the catalogue link there. You'll need to include a little text to indicate to the reader why it's relevant, eg: A book bound by Wiemeler in 1935, in the collection of the British Library
 * 2) Queens' Binder – Re-add the sentence about Binder D and turn the catalogue link into a reference. As for the links to examples of work by Binders A and B, I'd suggest creating an 'external links' section and adding them there; as with Wiemeler's page, you'd need to add some explanatory text for the link like An example of a bookbinding by Queenns' Binder A, in the collection of the British Library
 * 3) Doublure (bookbinding) – Instead of an external link, perhaps turn the link into a reference.
 * 4) Paper marbling – Turn the link to the Hatip-Ebru, flower marble into a reference. The link to the example in the Olga Hirsch Collection of Decorated Papers was in the right place (ie: the 'external links' section), but as a general rule we try to keep the number of links in those sections down. Including a link to the collection would be in keeping with the link immediately about to the University of Washington libraries and their online images. I think it might be worth going to the talk page and using it to suggest that a link to the British Library's catalogue could be included, and see what people think.

This short video, prepared by the University of Edinburgh's Wikimedian in Residence, shows how to add a reference. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 14:16, 26 May 2022 (UTC)