User talk:Yalclabujd

October 2010

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January 2014

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• practitioners-r/ "Vic Roberts"] at Australian Variety Theatre Archive. (Sighted 19 January 2014)]

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 22:05, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Tomson Highway

Just a couple of notes for you:

1. Please familiarize yourself with our rules for appropriate vs. inappropriate external links. The external links section of an article is not meant to be a comprehensive directory of every web page under the sun that contains any information about or discussion of the subject at all; it's only meant to contain the primary website of the topic itself, and/or its pages in neutral directory sites. Somebody else writing an academic thesis about the topic might be suitable for citation as an inline reference — although point #2 will come into play here — but it is not appropriate for listing as a straight "external link".
2. Given that your username appears to be an anagram of the same name as the author of said thesis, please also familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest rules, which strongly discourage adding citations to your own work. It's not expressly disallowed, just to be clear — but you do need to be careful how you go about it.

Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 23:18, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi Bearcat,

I take your point about the external links. I do think, however, that your use of the phrase "strongly discourage" is not reflected in the wording of Wikipedia "Conflict of Interest" section. I've therefore created a "Bibliography" section for "The Rez Sisters" and "Dry Lips" articles and added the citation details there. I do so in the knowledge that the thesis is relevant and conforms to Wikipedia's content policies (including a persistent URL). This thesis citation is also not excessive, it does not place undue emphasis on me or my work and the public will in no way be under the impression that this is self-citing. As you'll see I have contributed no other content to the article which might try to draw attention to myself or the argument I put forth in the thesis. This information would eventually go into both Wikipedia articles. I only did it myself today after I was informed that UQ had recently published it on its eSpace Repository. The thesis has specific relevance to both plays, is neutral, accurate and provides "a unique resource beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article" to quote Wikipedia's guidelines. This includes the transcript of an interview I conducted with Tomson Highway.

Cheers

PS: I hope this "talk" response is okay. It's my first time and the process is somewhat confusing (for the moment, anyway).

Yalclabujd (talk) 08:02, 31 January 2014 (UTC)