Talk:Bruce Chilton
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Publisher edits
[edit]This article has been edited by Chilton's publisher, Random House, so beware of promotional bias. --Blainster (talk) 06:27, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- Most of the spam has now been removed. As a guide to the sort of spam that is possible when an extraordinary effort is made to insert it, this included:
- changing the links to the ISBNs so instead of using our standard publisherr-neutral ISBN linking mechanism , they went tdirectly to the page advertising the book on the publishers site.
- listing the publisher & putting in links only for those of his book published by Random House, and not those from even more distinguished publishers, like Cambridge University Press.
- repeating the basic biographic facts in discussing several different books.
- linking as often as possible to the name of that publisher
and all of this beyond the usual spam techniques of
- repeating the name of the author as often as possible
- using many adjectives to describe the importance of the author and the work
- including an extensive summary of a book
- using a description of a book to include extensive basic information of the general subject
The publisher's ip inserting this material has, of course, also been blocked. I note, by the way, that the author is very notable in the field, and the article needed no such efforts to show it. I had not known of him before, and, as an example of the usefulness of Wikipedia, I am in fact going to read one his books that seems of particular interest to me-- not, as it happens, one published by Random House. DGG (talk) 14:13, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Birth
[edit]How was he born in 1842 and still living? This is probably an error, if not there should be some explanation of how he has lived so long. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.203.236.113 (talk) 15:42, 10 March 2016 (UTC)
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