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Repetitive insertion of links

If you are indeed connected in some way with the institution your user name suggests, then you are very welcome indeed to edit and help with Wikipedia. I must warn you however, that the pedia isn't here to broadcast links intended to raise the awareness of a particular cause or institution, no matter how worthy. When a new user repeatedly inserts the same links to several pages, Wikipedians tend to view this as WP:SPAM. If by your contributions you're signalling your institution wants Wikipedians to know they can benefit from online or offline resources you can make available, that's supremely cool and appreciated. If this is the case, I'd suggest you visit the talk pages of some WikiProjects which would be oh so glad to know about your worthy endeavor. Wikipedia:WikiProject Maryland (their talk page) and Wikipedia:WikiProject United States (their talk page) would very happy to help spread such word or be willing to help you to learn the editing process and the rules and guidelines linked in the welcome message above. Have fun editing the pedia. We like to say be bold. If I can be helpful, visit my talk link and post a question, or reply here with your contribution. BusterD (talk) 17:41, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Hello,

Yes, I am a staff member of the University of Maryland Special Collections library. Our institution greatly wants to contribute to the Wikipedia community by sharing our online and offline resources. We want to make more contributions, and if you can let us know how best to proceed that would be greatly appreciated. If you need to speak to someone from the institution directly, please contact (Redacted)

Thanks

I've removed the email address posted here - editors will post information to this page if they are able to help you. ^Avic_ennasis @ 18:13, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Ideally WP is a collection of verifiable data from reliable sources - not a collection of links to data on an external server. If you wish to contribute then the data you have should be added to the actual article, not just a link. You should read up on WP:EL. Also you should change your user name, as it violates the user name policy - see WP:CHU/SIMPLE on how to change, ideally your name should not reflect any organisation or show that the user has any specialised knowledge - then was all users can be treated equally, and their edits are of equal value.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:10, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

All this above feedback was intended to improve your ability to accomplish your stated purpose, not to criticize or judge the work you've done to date. I've notified relevant WikiProjcts and I suspect members will come to this page to discuss this opportunity with you. I'm available to help you going forward. I'll watch this page for developments. I think Wikipedia and historical collections of all kinds will find themselves natural allies as the internet moves forward. Thanks, new user, for making this attempt to help Wikipedia. Let's see how we can help each other. BusterD (talk) 21:31, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

I've asked someone from the Wikipedia Galleries, Museums, Archives and Libraries outreach group to make direct contact with the UMDSC Library. Some more details of our outreach work can be found at at: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:35, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

Dear UMDSpecColl. I have removed most of the external links that you added. I have reviewed each of them, and found that they, generally, in the current form, did not add anything to the pages where they were added. However, some of them were indeed giving extra information and I left those.

I hope this is not too bitey, and I am sorry if you do feel that it is. However, I hope you understand that we do try to have the best information here, and that the links presented on the page have to lead directly to more info than what is already in the article. If you have more direct links, then you could certainly consider to add those to the article or discuss them on the talkpages of the articles or with other interested editors.

Hope to see you around, and if you have further questions, please do not hesitate to ask! --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 09:31, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

hi, i am a member of Wikipedia:GLAM/NARA & Wikipedia:GLAM/AAA

while i wouldn't have undone your early efforts, might i suggest, it would be more productive if you first try adding a reference, to all the papers held at your library. for example, as was already done at the Myra Sklarew article.

please review Wikipedia:GLAM getting started, and the WP:COI policy, and WP:CURATOR, it would be good to put a note on your user page User:UMDSpecColl; a little forthrightness, will forestall a lot of recriminations. Slowking4: 7@1|x 17:43, 23 August 2011 (UTC)