Talk:Interlink Publishing

Contested deletion - Nomination for Speedy Deletion by User:Barney the barney barney

This page is for a book publisher, and so is necessary to link to citations as "publisher". Do not delete, it is unambiguous and adds resources and data to provide web-links across Wikipedia. Please note further, that the section you refer to CSD A7 relates to:

• This criterion applies only to articles about web content and to articles about people, organizations, and individual animals themselves, not to articles about their books, albums, software, or other creative works.

I fail to see how this rule applies to tomb-stone articles of book publishers.
Enquire (talk) 17:11, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

• This is important to provide information as part of the "web of citations" ... deleting this page would leave a dead-end for those seeking to track-down publishers. Potentially, this information may be more appropriate in WikiData project, but until and unless that determination is made, it should (at least) remain active here ... and available for editors to expand and enrich the meta-data on this publisher.
  

Enquire (talk) 01:37, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

On-demand?

Has this publisher been involved in on-demand publishing? Specifically, does this article, with its mention of Interlink, refer to this company? There are several reviews of books published by Interlink Books visible to me on-line, but what is most needed to establish notability is mentions of them as publishers - and that one would fit the bill, even if they no longer do publishing on demand, but OCLC lists a different publisher with no mention of Interlink. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:33, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

• I didn't find any mention of Interlink on that site. However, the link has changed and now that title shows-up here: A Citizen's Guide to Public Accountability: Changing the Relationship Between Citizens and Authorities. This book is published by Trafford Publishing.

I also looked at their "About Us" page, but did not find any mention of "Interlink". Likewise, I checked the Interlink "About Us" page here: Interlink | About Us ... and did not find any mention of Trafford. Ergo, I do not believe they are related. Where did you find information that suggested that they might be? As for Interlink self-publishing, I did not find any mention of that on the Interlink website.

Possibly this page should be incorporated into the WikiData project. At least there should be a database of publishers and these whould be cataloged somewhere in Wikimedia. Currently, several (although not all) publishers have Wikipedia pages, and there does not seem to be any absolute criteria that I am aware of to determine if they are considered "notable". Regardless, we should have a directory of publishers in Wikimedia somewhere. Probably that should be WikiData.

Enquire (talk) 18:38, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

I don't believe all publishers are automatically notable, so I'm not sure we should automatically link them or maintain a database of them; OCLC can be used for that purpose via the OCLC and ISBN numbers. However, regarding the link I'd asked about above, it's an article about on-demand publishing and the relevant passage (in the 3rd paragraph) is this: "Going to Ireland: A Genealogical Researcher's Guide, by Sherry Irvine and Nora Hickey ($16.95) can be ordered from Interlink at the above address, or from the publisher. View its Web site at http:// www.trafford.com/robots/97-002.html." Perhaps you can see less of the article than I can? Yngvadottir (talk) 19:02, 18 July 2013 (UTC)