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Wayles Browne is not only a professor, he is also an active literary translator. I will add information about his literary activities to the page later tonight. Stephkru (talk) 22:56, 4 February 2009 (UTC)stephkru[reply]
Which part of the external links guideline page was violated by the link I added to WorldCat? The site is authoritative and widely linked from Wikipedia, and it provides a level of information about the subject's publication history and the availability of his work that would be inappropriate in the article itself. EALacey (talk) 09:33, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I take it that you're making a general objection to many or all WorldCat links, so I've commented on Template talk:Worldcat id. EALacey (talk) 16:24, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I wasn't aware that WorldCat did static pages, as well as the 'search results' pages I've seen referenced elsewhere on wikipedia. I withdraw my objection. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 17:55, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for this collegial response. Before I came over here to check on the progress of this discussion, I added what I hope is a careful and well-thought-out response to the original objection. It may instead be my whiny and overly-protective reaction :-) Anyway, it's now over there if we ever need to explain why WorldCat IDs are good. Thanks for your concern. I have seen and removed a fair amount of link-cruft myself, so I know you are doing an important job. -Arch dude (talk) 23:48, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I note that we're already linking to Open Library, which is an admirable project but doesn't include holdings information, and in this case finds fewer relevant works than WorldCat does. EALacey (talk) 09:44, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The same applies to Open Library. HrafnTalkStalk(P) 12:39, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
