Talk:List of digital library projects

message: Hello everybody. I can see no mention for the Arabic Language nor the Arabic virtual libraries. Can you help me to update the page with this piece of info?
I know about AskZad.com, which is the first Arabic Virtual Library with more than 500 Million Pages archived on it. Thanks in advance.
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thread_title: Categories

message: If an online library site is down long-term, then we should not maintain a link here.--SallyForth123 01:09, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: unless it has been really important previously. . The link should be marked to show it is dead. See WP:EL.  DGG (talk) 17:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Links

message: I think we should be very reluctant to includee collections at individual libraries--I would argue for a certain major level of notability, such that Akron-Summit County Public Library's Digital Exhibits is not included. There's a distinction between a notable digital library project, and a mere Institutional repository, such as almost every major university now hasDGG (talk) 03:50, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Individual libraries

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:03:39, 9 November 2007 user:ZimZalaBim (why so many external links? Wikipedia isn't a directly of links)
I think this is a misunderstanding of term external links. When external links are used as they are in this article at the moment, they are "embedded citations" and are covered under the verification policy. So unless there is a consensus not to do so, I would like to remove the template. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 10:42, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. These are not embedded citations in the sense that a claim is made that needs to be verified by an external source. These are simply links to external websites, and Wikipedia is not meant to be a directory of external websites. --ZimZalaBim talk 15:13, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the claims need citations. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 23:54, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: These aren't claims - these are merely lists of external projects with links, ie, a directory. A claim is something like "XYZ's digital library project is the largest..." - that would need an external citation. --ZimZalaBim talk 00:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Normally I would say that each listing in articles like this ought to have a corresponding individual article, and that we would therefore not need the external links, but in this particular case there are many such projects that need & deserve mention here, and we can not keep up with them in writing articles. We do however need some better specification of just what the standards should be for inclusion. DGG (talk) 08:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The argument that there are too many projects to keep up with doesn't hold water givin this (WP) is a collaborative-based project where there is no shortage of people/energy (let alone bots) to create articles, and that's no reason to create a linkfarm.-ZimZalaBim talk 11:42, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From my perspective, this article is a linkfarm, and all the external links should be removed.  This is standard practice and I believe there's a great deal of consensus for it across Wikipedia. --Ronz (talk) 16:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External links or citations

message: http://safari.oreilly.com/
... books from a bunch of publishers, as a service.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.55.25.184 (talk) 03:00, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safari 

message: Why not split this into two pages: One, Wikipedia:List of digital library projects would be a list of any digital library projects useful to Wikipedia editors.  The other, List of digital library projects, would attempt a more encyclopedic, tighter admissions criteria? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 21:19, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Lists of reference sources are a good idea, of which a list of digital libraries would be a part.  I'd prefer tables that include ways to search the libraries and other sources. --Ronz (talk) 02:07, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a good idea, but it's a separate project, because there should be a focus upon the actual user needs here. Be aware that not all of these are of free projects, or even those with open access. . The present article should include major projects without regard to practical use here, and, fortunately there are a great many of them. That doesn't mean the list should be smaller.    DGG ( talk ) 04:07, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion 

message: I was unsure whether this fell into this list or not - "digital library" seemingly being a technical term and opaque in meaning to me. The National Library of Australia is a part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program. They launched a program to have internet users collaborate on digitising Historic Australian Newspapers, from 1803 to 1954. link to website I do not know if this falls into the category or not. Useful in any case. SauliH (talk) 13:29, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology gets me - the NLA? 

message: As it is becoming more notable and is a resource which serves a wider audience than just the University should the Cambridge Digital Library have it's own article in order to be a part of this list?--Acc60 (talk) 11:49, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cambridge Digital Library? 

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thread_title: Come and join '''The Wikipedia Library'''

message: The Association des anciens amateurs de récits de guerre et d'holocauste (AAARGH) is a far-right, Holocaust revisionist website, that promotes itself as a holocaust-research-site with a large collection of books on it’s site. Most of these books can easily be described as “very unsavoury stuff.” If someone would look for a reliable source for an article on WP, I wouldn’t advise to look at the AAARGH-site.
Now, since AAARGH is notable enough to have it’s own article on Wikipedia, I wonder if it should be included in this article. The question is:is this list a non-partisan list that includes the AAARGH-site, or should we exclude piles of rubbish-books and demand some quality standards here? (I think I know the answer, but when we have consensus about this we don't have to discuss this when it becomes neccesary.) Regards,Jeff5102 (talk) 15:06, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: AAARGH

message: I'm not sure how this page is supposed to work, but I'm surprised these two sites aren't included:
* Persée (portal) -- this website has a sizable number of academic & technical publications published in France; fr.wikipedia has this article listing its holdings. link (Useful here because these periodicals also publish English-language articles.)
* The Bayerische StaatsBibliotek has another online library full of information; I used it to obtain copies of various volumes of the monumental Monumenta Germaniae Historica, vital to anyone writing on Late Ancient/Early Medieval topics. (link to the MGH webpage) I also used this site to obtain articles published in various German academic periodicals in the past.
We ignore non-English online resources at our own peril. -- llywrch (talk) 17:54, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  A couple of missing items 

message: I propose the addition to the list of BEIC, European Library of Information and Culture. See Wikipedia:GLAM/BEIC and the links there. Regards, Federico Leva (BEIC) (talk) 12:19, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't bother proposing it, just do it. GangofOne (talk) 04:30, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  BEIC 

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replies: text: 2 out of 3, not bad, Botbrain. No worries, I have fixed the third by hand. GangofOne (talk) 04:27, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

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message: Name                          	Subject(s)	Volumes	Description                                          	Provider(s)                            	Ref
Darakht-e Danesh Library (DDL)	General   	       	Library of open educational resources for Afghanistan	Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan	
I propose adding this entry (but have a COI so won't do so myself). Nikkimaria (talk) 19:13, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It is similar to some of her material here, and I see no reason why it should not be added. --the only problem is that it is hard to describe--some small  part of it is about Afghanistan, as distinct from general subjects, most of which are not targeted for Afghanistan  . Most of the material seems to be in English, with some in Pashto, Farsi or other Afghan languages. The introductory material on their web site   does not seem to mention these limitations, so  it would be a good idea to write an article about the project as well as entering it here.   DGG ( talk ) 18:05, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your input, DGG. I've reopened the request - having a standalone article might be a good idea in the longer term, but as it's not a requirement of being listed here this seems a good first step. Nikkimaria (talk) 21:26, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you both for your feedback, it's much appreciated. To sum up that feedback,  stated that it would be a good idea for an article to be created along with the entry here, while  stated that it would be a good idea to create the entry without an article. Unfortunately, two editors giving feedback advising opposite actions would not be considered a consensus. Thus, the COI editor is kindly asked to establish that consensus before requesting these changes be made. The COI editor may wish to seek out additional feedback at the talk pages of the WikiProjects which govern this article; those projects are listed at the top of this talk page. Regards,  Spintendo  22:11, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at this again  after so long, I think the net benefit would be to add it , but still hope for an article.  DGG ( talk ) 00:37, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Spintendo, with that, there appears to be consensus for the addition? Nikkimaria (talk) 01:01, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Regards,  Spintendo  20:37, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested addition 

message: overlapping content, very similar subject fgnievinski (talk) 21:01, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose, as these are distinct topics, in the same way that Digital library is different from Institutional repository, subject repository, Open-access repository and Preprint repository. I think that the two pages just need to be linked more prominently. I'll add entries in the  see also sections, without prejudice to the final merge (or no merge) decision.  Klbrain (talk) 11:01, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[List of repositories]] into [[List of digital library projects]] 

message: ^ Greatder (talk) 06:00, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add [[Z-Library]]