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Paul Wormer
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« on: March 28, 2008, 03:20:57 PM »
Some of us worked on  http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Count_Rumford . It so happens that there is an informative, but commercial, site about the Rumford fireplaces:  http://www.rumford.com/webpubnote.html .  To link or not to link, that is the question. If we link we advertize willy-nilly, if we don't link we miss some interesting info. Any ideas?
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Denis Cavanagh
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« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2008, 04:29:13 PM »
Information is information... Do we link to Bill Gates' home page in the Microsoft article (Not being sarky, genuinely don't know if we do)
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Todd Coles
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« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2008, 07:18:56 PM »
I just want to comment that, while this is a commercial site, it does contain full text of Rumford's essays on fireplaces.  I think if we could find it somewhere else online, that would be better.  But I'm not so sure we're endorsing the company by linking to this text.
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Chris Day
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2008, 06:29:54 AM »
Quote from: Todd Coles on March 28, 2008, 07:18:56 PM
But I'm not so sure we're endorsing the company by linking to this text.

I agree, from Paul's comments above I was expecting something far more gratuitous with respect to comercialism. I think thi is an acceptable link since the quality of the content out weighs the commercialism.
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Todd Coles
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« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2008, 08:11:12 AM »
Well, we managed to find a copy on Project Gutenberg, so no need to worry about this specific example.
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