User talk:Tdkehoe

Welcome to wikibooks. Which other wiki texts are you working on? Are they books here on this site? Chapters from existing books of yours that need wikification, would be welcome as raw text. Sj 05:30, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm confused what you are doing here, I almost gave it a speedy deletion tag, but I see that it is new. If it is a page in a book, you should start a book and then make that page a page of that book. "What Is Stuttering" is not "book" material. Of course, it is welcome to stay if you have a bigger book planned for it. --Dragontamer 02:24, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

"What Is Stuttering?" is the first chapter of the book. I have about a dozen more chapters, you can see them at http://www.universitycollegepress.com/Books/NoMiracleCures/. I'm new to wiki-ing, some things confuse me. I'm trying to set up each chapter as a seperate file, to not exceed the 32K limit. I can't find a style guide explaining how to do the references and footnotes. Also how did you put your signature at the end of your note?


 * Oh, i see now. We have a naming convention here in wikibooks, and I moved your page to: Speech-Language_Pathology/Stuttering/What_Is_Stuttering?


 * As for signature, that is --~ . Actually, the 4 ~ would do it, but generally people put -- before their sigs. --Dragontamer 02:35, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, you did exactly what I wanted. I couldn't figure it out.--Thomas David Kehoe 02:36, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Lol, you have done it again :) What you do is add Speech-Language_Pathology/Stuttering/ to the beginning of the links. So you go Speech-Language_Pathology/Stuttering/What_Is_Stuttering? for Speech-Language_Pathology/Stuttering/What_Is_Stuttering? and so on, and so forth. I'll move the other page you created. --Dragontamer 02:49, 29 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Additionally, you can go

What Is Stuttering? for What Is Stuttering?


 * Actually, I'll just do that on the main page for you. --Dragontamer 02:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Deletion of Pages
Please don't blank pages that you want to delete. It causes us no end of grief here and with other Wikimedia projects. If you can, please use the   markup template on the page if you want to delete something from here. We will find the page sooner and be able to deal with the deletion without having to fight through other pages first.

Thank you, though, for trying to help make Wikibooks a better place. We do appreciate people like you trying to help find stuff that really doesn't belong. --Rob Horning 19:36, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, thanks. Figuring out how to structure the Russian grammar pages took several false tries. :-) --Thomas David Kehoe 17:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge
If you merged to pages it might be easier to #redirect to the old page then to mark them for delete. Problem is: I can't delete the page until I have seen the page it was merged to check if the merge was truely performed. Or I know you to be a trustworthy contributer.

--Krischik T 13:03, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

I wanted to comment the URL for the new, merged file but last night Comcast slowed to a crawl and I was too frustrated to wait another fifteen minutes to look up a URL. And this is 8 megabit service. :-(--Thomas David Kehoe 17:34, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Another PDF edition?
I have just had a glance at your book and see that there have been many changes. If you would like me to produce a PDF edition 2.0 to replace the existing just drop me a line at my talk page when you are ready. Alternatively you could do it. RobinH 14:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I had a brainstorm and figured out a better way to structure the book. My new idea is to design the book to encourage user contributions. If this works, people should be adding material every week. Maybe we shouldn't have a PDF version?--Thomas David Kehoe 17:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


 * See how it goes - if the book is truly dynamic a PDF would be a bad idea, if it is stable it might help readers to download the whole thing. Leave it for 6 months? RobinH 16:20, 27 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't foresee making any major changes. Is there a way to view how many people are reading the book. No one is making changes, so I wonder if anyone is reading it?--Thomas David Kehoe 20:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Conflict of interest?
Thomas, as the owner of a company that sells anti-stuttering devices, you have a vested interest in putting these devices in the best possible light. I am not necessarily questioning either your motives or the accuracy of the information you have posted, but you need to disclose your financial interest clearly in each article about anti-stuttering devices. You can only improve your credibility by doing so. The need for complete honesty is particularly necessary in a medical topic such as stuttering--with all the snake-oil "cures" out there, people looking for help need the most reliable information about treatments. You are a leader in the stuttering community, and as such you have a duty to ensure that they get the best possible information, with all biases properly disclosed.

Pending disclosure on your part, I have added provisional disclaimers to these articles.

re:"Basic Book Design"
Hey Tdkehoe, I was wondering if you'd heard of http://www.lulu.com/ ? I'm not suggesting them as an alternative to Wikibooks, but just another possibility. It's certainly possible to free-license something and still sell it. (I haven't used them yet, but I'm thinking about it. They seem pretty decent but no personal experience to speak of.) cheers, pfctdayelise 08:20, 19 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Their prices are good, about the same as any digital book printer, and less than half the price of Amazon's BookSurge.--Thomas David Kehoe 14:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Stuttering Conflict of interest
Hello Tom, how are you? We've received reports from people at Wikipedia that you have a conflict of interest because of your work. This has also led to some accusations that some of your contributions to the stuttering book, especially where it concerns products from your company, are biased.

This isn't as big a problem here on Wikibooks as it is on Wikipedia, but it still needs to be corrected. We are going to read through the book, and make sure that everything is properly unbiased, and that there are no significant problems arising from this conflict of interest. I know that it is natural to add bias when you write, especially on topics for which you are an "expert". I know that there have been occasions when I needed to take a step back and try to view my own contributions from a neutral perspective, because I was adding bias of my own. It's not a problem when it happens, so long as people are willing to work to fix it.

We're going to do what we can to fix the book and remove any problems. If you could do me a favor, please try to avoid adding additional bias to the book. I know that it's hard, but it's a policy here and we need to try and maintain object neutrality. Please let me know if you have any questions. --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 17:12, 2 December 2007 (UTC)