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Isambard homed in on the fact that I am the author. Also, as I understand it, you are saying that if I'd done lots of editing of other pages then that fact would make it OK to add my own titles (that's what I uncderstand by your reference to my "editing pattern" above). But surely this is a very strange position for you to take? Either the books are useful references for users of the Knowledge pages that reference them or they are not - it should not matter who put them there, and it should matter even less what else the person who put them there has been doing on Knowledge!
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Mike, a good way to proceed is to offer these book references on the article talk pages, as author with COI, and let other editors decide whether they would be good additions to the article. In general, we don't link every possible or good outside work, so don't be too disappointed if they don't
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Sure, but in these case, there are very very few other texts for people to read. If any other editor would like to suggest that the books cited are themselves inappropriate, or that there are similar but beter ones, that would be absolutely fair criticism. Also, since the majority of editors
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I agree - I'll add to the talk pages and see if there is a consensus; after all, this should be left to subject experts and no-one else. I'd still like to hear your responses to my several points above.
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