Talk:Project grants/Hotels and cinema

Hi Dr. Blofeld, thank you for your application. The members of the Grants Committee will get back to you soon with any comments they may have. -- Katie Chan (WMUK) (talk) 10:57, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

Hello Dr. Blofeld, my initial thoughts on this are that I can see no reason to turn this down. This request is clearly within the scope of the chapter and having at least five more articles up to GA status should justify the cost. I agree that your record means you can be trusted to use the books for their intended purpose and complete the task in hand. I'm not to worried about counting the pennies at the moment as by the time you order the books the price may well have changed. Regardless, I think your being reasonable by ordering used books over new ones and agreeing to return them to the chapter when you've finished with them. From my experience, Amazon usually are cheap for books though I would also check eBay as well, as occasionally they can be cheaper over there. My only concern at the moment is what would the chapter do with the books once they were returned? Perhaps someone from the chapter could answer this. CT Cooper · talk 20:04, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Just to note on the returning issue: WMUK needs to retain ownership of material purchased by this sort of grant to ensure that there isn't a personal benefit to the member that is receiving the grant, and also so that the materials can be added to the Library and made available to other members in the future. There's notes about this embedded in Project grants. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 20:18, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

Another alternative could be for me to resell the books on Amazon after completion and use the money to buy more books to assist in articles, although I gather you'd have to trust me to do so and provide some proof of resale and reusing the money to buy others which might be tricky.Dr. Blofeld (talk) 11:42, 19 March 2014 (UTC)