User talk:KCL Archives

June 2014

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "KCL Archives", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is the name of an organization.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 13:23, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This account is created by King's college London archives service centre,and it will be used to amend some external links to our website. Thanks.

That may be, but usernames cannot simply be that of an organization per the username policy. You may have the name of your organization as part of a username, such as "John Smith at KCLArchives"; but usernames cannot have the suggestion that multiple people might use them. 331dot (talk) 13:32, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Seconded. Further, you should not be "spamming" links to your organisation (like this: "*The paper of Percy Clive at Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|") to multiple articles, an action which could get you blocked from editing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:00, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Chiswick Chap: See WP:CURATOR and Wikipedia:Advice_for_the_cultural_sector, where archivists etc are positively encouraged to improve the encyclopedia by providing External Links to their resources where "the link gives readers critical information uniquely relevant to the topic": a major repository of a subject's papers fits this description. PamD 23:01, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

For a more authoritative view I've asked for advice at User_talk:DGG#Links_to_archives. PamD 23:26, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

OK, noted, though it's hard to see how adding dozens of links in a short period of time can allow for assessing "critical information uniquely relevant to the topic" in each case. Another editor has already removed all the links, however. Chiswick Chap (talk) 06:22, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Daniel Case (talk) 00:45, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Linking to archives

Please see discussion at User_talk:DGG#Links_to_archives: I'm sure that most, if not all, of the links you made to the Liddell Hart collection are valuable additions to the articles, though they could have been better formulated, and I'm trying to get advice as to how they should best be done. PamD 13:51, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]