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[edit] www.fieldp.com

Please do not add commercial links or links to your own private websites to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. You are, however, encouraged to add content instead of links to the encyclopedia. If you feel the link should be added to the article, then please discuss it on the article's talk page rather than re-adding it. See the welcome page to learn more about Wikipedia. Thank you. Femto 11:42, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Please stop adding commercial or personal-website links to Wikipedia. It is considered spamming, and Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising. Thanks. Femto 12:09, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello Femto,
The Wikipedia site does not make it clear that this is the way to communicate with you, so I hope it gets through. I assume you are rejecting my entry simply because the link has .com. Would you please take a look. The books are quality college texts on accelerators and the site has won awards. It took over 6 months to create the PDF version. We are giving them away at no charge, and there is no advertising on the site.
Stan Humphries
The .com domain has nothing to do with it, mass inclusions of links can be seen as promotional even to a noncommercial site, nevertheless. The link sections are not a mere collection of external resources or a web directory to software sites. Regardless of quality, it is generally not appropriate to add links to sites one is affiliated with. The preferred way is to make a suggestion on the article's talk page and let other editors decide if a link is useful. Femto 20:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Dear Femto,

Sounds like you're determined not to look at the site, so I'm giving up on this one. By the way, out the thousands of available references on particle accelerators, whatever put it into your head that these are representative?

  1. Matthew Early Wright (April 2005). "Riding the Plasma Wave of the Future". Symmetry: Dimensions of Particle Physics (Fermilab/SLAC), p. 12.
  2. ^ Briezman, et al. "Self-Focused Particle Beam Drivers for Plasma Wakefield Accelerators." (PDF) Retrieved 13 May 2005.
  3. ^ Adam D. Helfer (2003). ""Do black holes radiate?" Rept. Prog. Phys. 66: 943.

S.H.

(Please leave the old content on talk pages and just add new messages below.)
I'm in no way responsible for the selection of references at particle accelerator. The 'References' section is for citing sources whose facts were used to write the article. I did look at your book site (as well as several software links to the same domain earlier). This doesn't change the fact that you shouldn't link to it yourself. As said before, if you want to suggest a link as a resource for other editors, there's the article talk page. And of course you're invited to contribute to the content of the articles as an expert editor yourself, but bare links alone are not helpful. Femto 21:14, 26 August 2006 (UTC)