User talk:Reccmo

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[edit] Werner Icking Music Archive

What is it about the WIMA that all you do is add external links to it into several articles? It would be nice if you write an article about it first. I hope this is not just a way to advertise the site. -- Perfecto  22:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to use Wikipedia for advertising, you will be blocked from editing. -- Perfecto  22:53, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I have no need for advertising WIMA which is strictly non-commercial, just try a Google search on "Werner Icking Music Archive" to see why. My aim is simply to improve the Wikipedia articles on composers by adding links to freely available, mostly high quality scores by those composers. I'll consider adding an article on WIMA.

Christian Mondrup

PS See my New User log

Reccmo 23:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Isn't it sufficient with the entry on WIMA I added several weeks ago to the external links section of the Wikipedia article on Sheet music?

Reccmo 23:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Not exactly. Wikipedia is not a collection of external links. What you do is seeding Wikipedia articles with external links to a website you maintain, and it's not our exact intention. See Wikipedia:External links.
RE: "freely available". I found it hard also to assess whether your data is free content. You say free now, yet I've seen nothing on the site saying "free forever". In other words, when the site gets bought, and the new owner started charging, she potentially has hundreds of links from Wikipedia in place. -- Perfecto  15:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

1. See the article on the Werner Icking Music Archive I entered earlier today. Unless you claim I'm lying that article should present evidence of the public domain nature of WIMA. WIMA can't possibly be bought by anybody because the site is hosted by a Danish state owned cultural organization, The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus.

2. Tell me why external links to music in similar public domain libraries like CPDL and Mutopia that existed before I added links to WIMA are not offensive! I am cooperating closely with the editors of these archives. If you believe I'm lying then ask these editors!

Reccmo 15:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

The links I've been adding are all referring to freely available, public domain music by the composers in concern. Take as an example the article on Johann Sebastian Bach. The external link to WIMA is to a web index of music solely by this composer. That's how WIMA is structured.

Reccmo 16:05, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

For a presentation of the WIMA publishing and usage conditions see the introductory page, http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/Introduction.html

Reccmo 16:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

As you'll notice from the editing history of the article on Michael Praetorius the author of the inital article (user Camenbert) added an external link to the WIMA Michael Praetorius web index.

Reccmo 17:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

OK. Thank you for clarifying this with me. -- Perfecto  18:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)