User talk:198.252.15.202

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New Author pages
I see that you have been adding a lot of new author pages. The problem with many of these is that we are unlikely to host works by these people in the forseeable future, if at all. Dealing with a smaller number of authors, and adding real material by them could be a more constructive use of your time. Eclecticology - the offended (talk) 06:28, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

I've been marking several of these pages for deletion. Unlike US politicians, the Canadian government doesn't release copyright on governmental works, and thus very few of these authors will have anything in the public domain. If they are deleted, I will probably look to make a clean sweep of these.--Prosfilaes (talk) 17:02, 13 July 2009 (UTC)


 * There's some concern from several directions over the author pages you've been adding. You can comment on Proposed deletions, which is a discussion on Lise Bacon, with a lot of drift, or you can discuss it here. In particular, there's general concern that having many author pages, with no works on Wikisource, in some cases no works that could be hosted on Wikisource, is a bad thing. Please discuss this; if you don't, we feel we may be forced to block your IP for a time.--Prosfilaes (talk) 16:36, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Your silence is a little disturbing. To note that I have deleted some of the author pages that were created in the past day as there was no evidence that we can house works of these authors, and with a couple of pages there is no evidence that they were even published authors. -- billinghurst (talk) 13:44, 6 August 2009 (UTC)