Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Books/Archive 10

Distributed Proofreaders Adding Links to Project Gutenberg Books
Hi,

I'm the General Manager of Distributed Proofreaders ( http://www.pgdp.net/ ), the entirely-volunteer-run crowdsourced non-profit that digitizes the majority of the out-of-copyright books that are distributed for free via Project Gutenberg (we recently digitized our 30,000th e-book and have more than 100,000 registered volunteers).

Although we have no gain from digitizing e-books, we naturally care about making free books available to anybody who would like to read them.

To that end, I've been thinking that it might be worth while to encourage our Distributed Proofreader volunteers to add links to the Project Gutenberg books that we produce in appropriate areas of the External Links sections of related Wikipedia articles (for example, a link to "Pride and Prejudice available through Project Gutenberg" added in the External Links section of the Wikipedia article on Pride and Prejudice).

However, just in case this might violate your Conflict of Interest guidelines (since the people who would be doing this would be unpaid volunteers of Distributed Proofreaders), I thought I should check with you first before suggesting this to our volunteers.

Thanks.

Lhamilton1 (talk) 04:18, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Lhamilton1, are you talking about adding links to Project Gutenberg (the site)? If so, then those can be added without worry. There's a template here on Wikipedia for PG links, which you could use. (Template:Gutenberg) I have to say, I'm very pleased that you asked before adding the links - that shows a huge amount of integrity on your part! (Plus it's insanely smart, considering that a lot of people don't think to ask.) The only thing I'd say is that the volunteers should read over WP:COI and disclose that they're here to add links to PG because they're volunteering with your site. Also, make sure that you tell them to be careful with their usernames as far as the WP:U policies go. They can create an account that refers to the site, but they have to make sure that it represents them as a person, so in other words something like "PGDPSuzie" or something like that. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  18:45, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

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