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Interview talk:Tim Kring
Keep or Remove
I discussed the idea of adding this interview with Ryan earlier and it sounded like a good idea at the time, but I'm starting to think otherwise. It's not one of Ryan's interviews, but it's from someone he knows on another site (who also happens to be an occasional contributor here). The difference between this one and Ryan's interviews is that Ryan posts his here exclusively and then we promote the interview here. With Dave's interview it looks like he's going to be promoting the version on his site. So it doesn't really make too much sense to me for us to reprint the entire interview if it's being promoted elsewhere. Thoughts? (Admin 23:58, 11 February 2008 (EST))
- I'm on the fence here. The links to the website that contains the exact same text do seem superfluous, though (Woo hoo! Finally used it in a sentence). --Hero!(talk)(contribs)
- I agree with Admin that it should be removed unless we have explicit permission and desire for the reprinting, and agreement that it will be trimmed/deleted from the other site. Since it is printed in its entirety elsewhere, I feel it's more appropriate for us to delete it and add it as a link as we do all of the CBR interviews. We would be sending traffic to the OWI website that way, but I feel that's appropriate that we treat other site's interviews as we would want our own to be treated--we wouldn't want someone to reprint the entirety of one of our interviews on another site. As a side note, this is a cool interview and congrats to OWI for scoring it.--MiamiVolts (talk) 00:17, 12 February 2008 (EST)
- I neglected to mention, we do have explicit approval to reprint it and in fact the original creator of the article was User:Deasnuts who is the one who conducted the interview. There was always the expectation that it would be printed on both sites and originally it sounded like a neat idea. However, as I mentioned before, upon thinking about it some more it doesn't seem to serve much point if he's planning to promote the version on his site. I think we should just link to it like we do the CBR interviews like MiamiVolts mentioned. (Admin 00:28, 12 February 2008 (EST))
- I think it's fine to keep the interview here. It can only increase our traffic and increase the-owi's traffic. Dave has had some terrific interviews, and I think having him post interviews here can only help our publicity and his. Personally, I don't see the issue, other than having the interview reprinted elsewhere (which happens quite often with my interviews). So long as we're not saying it's exclusive, I think it fits well with our other interviews. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 00:26, 12 February 2008 (EST)
- It doesn't fit in with the other interviews, though, where this is the "source". He's got the interview on his site so we're just reprinting something in full that exists elsewhere already. It would be like reprinting (with permission) all the CBR interviews. It doesn't really serve much point. It also doesn't increase our traffic if people are directed there for the interview. The only people who would find the interview here are people who are already on this site anyway. (Admin 00:28, 12 February 2008 (EST))
- I see what you're saying. I guess I'm thinking that I'm willing to send out publicity emails to all my contacts on the blogs and message boards, and send them to our site. Dave just sent one out, and it went to about half the people I would send to. I have another ten or fifteen people I would tell, and they would presumably link to our site. I guess in the end, it doesn't really matter, but I just don't see the harm in double promoting the interview. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 00:49, 12 February 2008 (EST)
- I don't think there's any real harm either, so if people don't mind it then I can live with it. :) I mostly wanted to get some feedback on the issue and see if anyone else had any concerns with it. We may want to avoid doing it again in the future, though, unless we come up with some criteria for determining what interviews we'd have a full copy of here and which we wouldn't (assuming copyright permission granted). I don't think we want to be in the habit of just republishing interviews that we could just be linking to instead. (Admin 00:53, 12 February 2008 (EST))
- I see what you're saying. I guess I'm thinking that I'm willing to send out publicity emails to all my contacts on the blogs and message boards, and send them to our site. Dave just sent one out, and it went to about half the people I would send to. I have another ten or fifteen people I would tell, and they would presumably link to our site. I guess in the end, it doesn't really matter, but I just don't see the harm in double promoting the interview. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 00:49, 12 February 2008 (EST)
- It doesn't fit in with the other interviews, though, where this is the "source". He's got the interview on his site so we're just reprinting something in full that exists elsewhere already. It would be like reprinting (with permission) all the CBR interviews. It doesn't really serve much point. It also doesn't increase our traffic if people are directed there for the interview. The only people who would find the interview here are people who are already on this site anyway. (Admin 00:28, 12 February 2008 (EST))
- I agree with Admin that it should be removed unless we have explicit permission and desire for the reprinting, and agreement that it will be trimmed/deleted from the other site. Since it is printed in its entirety elsewhere, I feel it's more appropriate for us to delete it and add it as a link as we do all of the CBR interviews. We would be sending traffic to the OWI website that way, but I feel that's appropriate that we treat other site's interviews as we would want our own to be treated--we wouldn't want someone to reprint the entirety of one of our interviews on another site. As a side note, this is a cool interview and congrats to OWI for scoring it.--MiamiVolts (talk) 00:17, 12 February 2008 (EST)