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OCLC Research would desperately love to add VIAF links to Wikipedia articles, but it seems to be very difficult. The OpenLibrary folks tried to do it a while back and ended up getting their plans severely curtailed. The discussion at Wikipedia is captured here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OpenlibraryBot Probably for very good reasons, this seems to be a very political process. That means we need to have pretty good support both within and outside the Wikipedia community to do this. Starting with the friendliest community I can think of, is there such support? Should we move forward on creating a ViafBot to stick VIAF links into Wikipedia? Thanks! Ralph