Talk:Project finance

Project Finance Magazine link

User:Hu12 removed external link for Project Finance Magazine as spam. Now, I did not put the link, but I do not think it's spam at all.

The magazine is one of the few publications concentrated on project financing that I know of, and I do read it from time to time (I work in the project financing atm). It seems to me to be a very useful resource for news in project financing.

They don't provide full articles without a subscription, though you can get access to a single issue with a free trial. This is not very different from other news sources (Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, etc.) that only give full access to subscribers.

IMHO, this link does not match any of the criteria on Wikipedia:External_links#Links_normally_to_be_avoided.

I'm not sure what the exact criteria for spam links on Wikipedia is, but I suggest that the value of adding this particular link be reconsidered. Baeksu (talk) 05:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

In interest of openness I should point out that I was once upon a time a staff writer at Project Finance Magazine. However, it wasn't me wot put that link there in the first place, nor do I know if it was anyone at the magazine that did. I'm just here to add my two pence worth.

Yes, you do need a subscription to view full articles, potentially putting it in breach of number six in the list of external links to be avoided. However, what if the home page itself is deemed "relevant content"? Project finance is an esoteric field, and outside Project Finance Magazine and Project Finance International, much news from this rarefied world isn't being covered (let's be honest here, it's not really that interesting). PF Mag has the news headlines on homepage, plus the standfirsts of articles featured in the magazine, giving the reader an idea of current trends and issues. When I worked for the magazine I was looking at the PFI (irritating acronym) website every day to see if there was stuff going on that I had missed, despite the fact that I wasn't subscribed to it. ~ Bighairything (talk) 16:19, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

encyclopedic, public domain source(s) (please assimilate content ...)

I'm putting hyperlinks to relevant, encyclopedic, public domain sources on a lot of talk pages, since you can just copy-and-cite the content. (In a few days I will list all such talk pages on my User Page; until then, if you'd like to help assimilate the content, you can find these pages at my contribs page.)

here's yours, please pillage:

• http://wikileaks.org/wiki/CRS:_AIRPORT_FINANCE:_A_BRIEF_OVERVIEW%2C_June_26%2C_1998
• other CRS Reports at http://wikileaks.org/wiki/CRS_reports_by_date

PS if you know of a better talk page for this material, please move it there or create the appropriate new page. I am doing this work en masse and may make mistakes Agradman ^talk/_contribs 16:47, 1 July 2009 (UTC)