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An "external links" section was removed from the article in this edit 2 days after PanelPlex was added; the cited WP:ELNO policy mentions avoiding links to pages "that primarily exist to sell products or services" (point 5), and avoiding "lists of links to manufacturers, suppliers or customers" (point 14). My question is, would it be acceptable to have a list of academic papers that have been published in credible scientific journals and which describe new software releases? as I expect all 5 of the removed links were to products with peer-reviewed papers behind them, and it wouldn't take too much extra work to compile a list of these peer-reviewed papers instead of linking to the products.
Conflict of interest: I am the author of PrimerPooler. Plea for leniency: PrimerPooler is free software ( GPL) which I never made money from: I wrote it to help my wife with a temporary job in a cancer-research lab after she immigrated, and, as we wanted other labs to benefit too, we submitted a paper [1] for peer review in an Oxford journal and paid our own open-access fee (no funds available from our institutions: after my post-doc finished in 2005, my ongoing affiliation with the Computer Lab has only been teaching assistance). We did this only because we wanted cancer to be beaten sooner, only bothering with the paper when a friend said "labs want new software to be peer-reviewed before they'll use it". We're not seeking fame or fortune. Silas S. Brown ( email, talk) 10:04, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
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