User talk:TrevorWatkinson

FRC

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In addition to the external link, I do not think it is appropriate to have Image:PP Fibres & Explosive Spalling.pdf on Wikipedia because it may be construed as advertising and the copyright is difficult to verify as being yours. It would be better to incorporate any information from that pdf into the article manually and to possibly reference the article as a source if needed with an external link. Thanks for trying to improve the article and welcome to Wikipedia. -- Basar (talk · contribs) 23:18, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

The way I see it, the other link is being used directly as a reference to support the text of the article. It also goes directly to an article. The link to your website, however, was just a link to the main page of a company and didn't specifically backup any point in the text. I think a good solution here would be to add some information into the article from the magazine article you wrote, and then link to that article as a reference. It would also be ok to link to specific parts of your website if they can be used to support specific points in the text about FRC. If we did use the magazine article as a reference, it would be best if we could link to an offsite version of it because the file on Wikipedia will likely need to be removed because of copyright concerns because a) we can't be sure you are the author of the article and b) I imagine you signed some kind of copyright release deal when you submitted the article to the magazine, so the magazine would now have the copyright. -- Basar (talk · contribs) 22:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)