User talk:Fidrabooks

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Elinor Lyon

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Editing and References

Hello. I see you added to The Far-Distant Oxus and to a few other pages. One point you will need to know when editing is that footnotes only work if there is "{%{reflist}%}" (but without the "%" signs, which are only there to stop the software converting this) on the page to say where the footnotes should go. As to the content added, I'm happy myself to see a reference to the fact that Fidra Books are bringing the book out again. I'd noticed that from Google searches and was going to add the fact myself once the book was actually out. But you should be aware that by Wikipedia social norms it's regarded as better not to add material where one might be seen as having a conflict of interest (see

WP:COI). If, as I imagine, you are involved with the firm "Fidra Books", it might be better to let people know on the talk pages of the article that your firm is reissuing a book. Someone else can then decide whether the information is merely advertising or should be in the article - I imagine with these fondly remembered out-of-print books that there'll always be someone who thinks the information is useful. I hope this is helpful (it's meant that way). N p holmes (talk) 12:22, 20 February 2008 (UTC)[reply
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Sorry not to reply to your query earlier (I'm normally working during the week and only happened to look at my watchlist on my lunch break). I shouldn't pretend to be an expert on Wikipedia usage. I've only written here myself for a few months. I imagine that the kind of information that one would find in a very dry reference work would be unobjectionable to anyone, i.e. nothing where a reader, knowing who wrote it, would say "Well they would say that, wouldn't they?" I don't know whether the Elinor Lyon article is objectionable in that respect (it wants perhaps a little more of the things one would look for in a reference work on the writing career - when were important books published and by which publisher?). The editor who marked the article for deletion was patrolling, I think (editors go through the lists of new articles to spot vanity articles, pointless articles, vandalism, advertisements, libel etc.). If anyone still thinks the article should be deleted, one would need to establish notability from e.g. scholarly literature, but the question may not come up. N p holmes (talk) 08:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sheila Stuart

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Fidra Books

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Hi. This article is an attempt to give people accurate information about the author. Nowhere in the article does it say that the books are being reprinted... I will remove the link to our website.

May I also ask: there are many entries about publishers (and I know that some were written by the companies themselves). Are they also subject to deletion?

I'm not try to break rules or offend anyone; I'm just a bit unclear about how the rules are being applied. We partially decided to do this because material from our introductions was being used without citation, and also that inaccurate information about our authors was on the site.

Thank you. Fidrabooks (talk) 11:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Remember that in order for articles to be from a
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May 2010

welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, Fidrabooks, may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because Wikipedia disapproves of accounts named after companies, because it's not apparent whether there's a single editor connected to the account, or if it's a "role account", which is right out. After all, a role can't license its contributions.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may file for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account and use that for editing. Thank you. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 20:15, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply
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