User talk:Alastair McIntosh

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Username policy

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.

April 2010

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.

Hello again. I just wanted to let you know that, as Wikipedia has an article about you, I hope you don't mind that I've added your name to the page Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles. As you may already be aware, you are always free to revert vandalism and remove anything defamatory from this article without running afoul of the conflict-of-interest guideline. If you detect inaccuracies in the article, the best approach is to place a message with your concerns on the article's talk page, ideally with links to verifiable, third-party published sources that will aid in correcting the inaccuracy. More information is available at Wikipedia:Autobiography#If Wikipedia already has an article about you

Finally, I note that the username warnings and blocking/unblocking notice remain on your user talk page. You are free to remove these at any time. Removing notices and warnings from one's own user talk page is considered simply an acknowledgement of having read them.

Please let me know if I can offer you any other help. Cheers. -- Rrburke (talk) 16:15, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very many thanks for this advice on editing this page, and for adding my stuff on Wikipedians with articles. I can see it's soon going to be time for me to make another donation to Wikipedia to keep the community afloat! Alastair McIntosh (talk) 09:06, 28 April 2010 (UTC)Alastair.[reply]

Hockey Stick Illusion review

Just read your comment on the talk page for The Hockey Stick Illusion. That was an interesting read (and got me to read the Bishop Hill posts and discussion) - thanks. I see the general ugliness of the debates here, on-line and in public policy debates, and just didn't make the connection that it could also extend to someone such as yourself. *shudder* Appreciate your taking the time to explain your views a bit here! Ravensfire (talk) 21:47, 23 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]