Talk:Bruce Chilton

Publisher edits

This article has been edited by Chilton's publisher, Random House, so beware of promotional bias. --Blainster (talk) 06:27, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Most of the spam has now been removed. As a guide to the sort of spam that is possible when an extraordinary effort is made to insert it, this included:

1. changing the links to the ISBNs so instead of using our standard publisherr-neutral ISBN linking mechanism , they went tdirectly to the page advertising the book on the publishers site.
2. listing the publisher & putting in links only for those of his book published by Random House, and not those from even more distinguished publishers, like Cambridge University Press.
3. repeating the basic biographic facts in discussing several different books.
4. linking as often as possible to the name of that publisher

and all of this beyond the usual spam techniques of

1. repeating the name of the author as often as possible
2. using many adjectives to describe the importance of the author and the work
3. including an extensive summary of a book
4. using a description of a book to include extensive basic information of the general subject

The publisher's ip inserting this material has, of course, also been blocked. I note, by the way, that the author is very notable in the field, and the article needed no such efforts to show it. I had not known of him before, and, as an example of the usefulness of Wikipedia, I am in fact going to read one his books that seems of particular interest to me-- not, as it happens, one published by Random House. DGG (talk) 14:13, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Birth

How was he born in 1842 and still living? This is probably an error, if not there should be some explanation of how he has lived so long. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.203.236.113 (talk) 15:42, 10 March 2016 (UTC)