User talk:Alastair McIntosh

Apparent COI issues - Hello, this is a note from Alastair McIntosh. I am adding this here at the suggestion of Wikipedia editor Rrburke. I am a Scottish scholar with the Centre for Human Ecology, a visiting professor at Strathclyde University, and I run my own website to which I sometimes post rare 3rd party resources, for example, hard-to-access out-of-copyright academic papers that I have scanned and OCRd. Sometimes these get knocked out by an editor due to apparent conflict of interest since my Wikipedia user name is the same as my personal website name. I would be very grateful if editors could be aware of this, and note that I am providing these research materials as a service to fellow scholars, and not to seek publicity. (I am also a sometime donor to Wikipedia since I so much appreciate the service you all provide). Alastair McIntosh.

Hello there

I think that it was yourself who just removed links I'd placed on the pages of James Fredrick Ferrier, Patrick Geddes, and probably the page for John Stuart Blackie as well.

Would you reconsider this? I am a professor of human ecology at Strathclyde University in Scotland and I use my personal website to host 3rd party scholarly material of interest to others in these fields. Ferrier, Blackie and Geddes were all Victorian Scots and what I have posted will be of considerable value to other scholars as it is all stuff very hard to get hold of and long out of copyright.

Alastair McIntosh.