User:Trev M/Lobby potentially acceptable external sources to provide citations

Hi, I'm writing to you as an editor of wikipedia, with an interest in yoga-related articles.

Several pages I am maintaining have links, placed by less experienced editors in the past, to the texts of the hathayoga-pradipika which you have on your site. Whilst the commercial tone, quality etc of your site is such that it would not be contentious to link to it from wikipedia, and I personally would like to leave those links there, in recognition of the service you provide by hosting the pages in question as an on-line resource, there is one issue with those pages that you could easily remedy: you do not cite the translators/ or translations of the documents you host there, simply saying "Hatha Yoga Pradipika of Svatmarama, 15th century CE, translated by various scholars" as part of an image.

As you may be aware, wikipedia links often appear near the top of google, so may I encourage you to insert in your pages, some form of followable referencing of where you got those translations, such that if a researcher wished to follow up your particular translation, it would be easily possible. Should your use be legitimate use of copyright, then I'd be happy to endorse those links in future, otherwise they may have to be removed as a conflict with wikipedia policies,

best regards, Trev M

Copy of email to http://www.santosha.com/crm.asp?saved=1&mk=cdb452u1d6-637 regarding http://www.santosha.com/philosophy/hathayoga-pradipika-chapter1.html ...chapter2.html ...chapter3.html etc Trev M (talk) 21:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)