User talk:Lblissett

Welcome!
Welcome to Wikibooks, and thank you for your contributions! I noticed you are compiling a in-depth encylcopedia ("macropedia") of information related to the New Media Art movement. Please note that Wikibooks is for textbooks and that macropedias on specific topics are generally not accepted. Please additionally consider reading our Naming policy and moving the pages pertaining to the New Media Art movement into sub-pages as per policy. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me here or at my talk page! Best wishes, Iamunknown 19:24, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

New metadata pages
Sadly these are not "textbook" content as required by Wikibooks and will be deleted shortly. Thanks -- Herby talk thyme 19:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Please bear in mind that when something is pointed out to you by other editors on Wikibooks it might be best not to ignore it. It is unlikely that your material will remain here -- Herby  talk thyme 19:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * If you continue to add pages disregarding policy you may be blocked from editing -- Herby talk thyme 19:39, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry if I've offended anyone. I'm confused as to what's wrong here... how can I get in touch with you to get some help with this matter?
 * By posting here you are in touch, if you read what has been placed here by two editors you will see that this is not the type of material that is allowed on Wikibooks. Wikibooks is here to provide "textbooks" for people to read and as both I and the editor above have said your material is not textbook like.  It is possible that you would be better looking on Wikiversity  for the hosting of such material.  You could ask in the Staff lounge for further information. -- Herby  talk thyme 19:46, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the additonal info, Herby. I will look into it. It was my impression that this is very much a textbook (in fact, there is an entire class taught by the author on this book at Brown University). Where can I find more information on your definition of "textbook"? I'm guessing from the comments above that you feel that this text is too specific?

Regarding the page naming policy: I wasn't aware of it until just now, and I was in the process of correcting the naming scheme when you warned me that I would be blocked if I continued to edit the page.


 * My apologies - I guess I just expect people to look at what is placed on their page and maybe read around. Sadly I am unable to assist you now as I am off however the Staff lounge may bring help failing which please do try Derbeth's talk page as there might be help there, sorry again -- Herby  talk thyme 20:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Hello and thanks for contributing to Wikibooks. I would not say that New Media Art is not written as a wikibook. I had concerns whether this book can be used as an educational material and is not some kind of advocacy (I have no knowledge in this topic). We are sometimes dealing with works of pseudo-science created on Wikibooks, so please understand why I was a bit suspicious. Now when you said about this book being used on an university, I looked for the it in Google and found it in Amazon, so I have no doubts how valuable it is.

So when it comes to content, the book is suitable for Wikibooks, but there are some issues that need to be clarified. First of all, copyright status of New Media Art is not clear. Have all authors given explicit permission to license their work under GFDL licence? Amazon lists Uta Grosenick as an editor of the book; is text corrected by she included here on Wikibooks and if so, has she also given permission to use her work here?

Next, is this text meant to be further edited and improved? There's an another Wikimedia Foundation project - Wikisource, which is an repository of finished, already published books licensed under GFDL licence or not covered by copyrights. Wikisource may be more suitable if there is no sense in making changes to the book.

I will go offline now, since it's already late in my timezone. Please don't fear that your work may be removed - new books are given time to develop and no content is removed without a good reason and prior discussion. --Derbeth talk 23:34, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Deletion
Per your request I have deleted your book. If there are any pages that I might have missed, just tag them with a deletion notice. Thanks. --Az1568(Talk) 20:12, 10 February 2007 (UTC)