User talk:Peter J Hancock

G'day, welcome.

I rephrased your edit to Ridderschap van Holland (1682) to remove redundancies like "historical" - of course it is a historical novel if it is about this ship - and peacock terms like "critically acclaimed". I've also twice removed your addition to Willem de Vlamingh, on grounds that your novel seems only marginally related to Vlamingh. After all, the subject of the article is Vlamingh, not the Ridderschap, so a novel about the latter hardly seems relevant. And I've reverted your addition to List of 17th century shipwrecks in Australia on the grounds that that list is supposed to contain a bare bones summary, and a modern cultural reference of marginal importance to the subject clearly doesn't belong there. Your contributions to megafauna etc seem reasonable enough, although the cliche "reign of terror" makes me cringe.

Our purpose is to build a great encyclopedia. Clearly yours is to promote your work. These two motives don't necessarily need to be at odds with one another, so long as you keep asking yourself "would inserting a reference to my work here improve the encyclopedia?"

Hesperian 05:24, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Oh, by the way. Have one of these templates:

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Sorry if the above sounds harsh. It wasn't intended as such, and I have no doubt that you have much of value to offer the encyclopedia. However, Hesperian failed to inform you that promotion of ones own work is expressly prohibited under the conflict of interest policy. You are welcome, of course, to contribute in other ways to the encyclopedia. Or, if you feel that your own work may enhance an article, you can suggest its inclusion in the article by posting a message in the article's talk page. Silly rabbit (talk) 15:14, 3 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]