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Thanks for all your East Tennessee-related edits!
--A. B. 23:52, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External links
Thanks for continuing to build our East Tennessee topics.
I want to caution you about external links, however.
Basically, most Internet sites don't meet our requirements for external links. Take a look at this guideline:
- External Links Guideline -- I'd read this one closely
You'll see that:
- While we like footnotes to support text, we really don't care much for just plain old external links at the end of an article. Even footnotes have to meet the requirements of:
- Skim these and you'll see what I mean. The key word for Wikipedia is "encyclopedic"
- Most useful or interesting sites don't make the cut because they have insufficient quality control. They're self-published in some way -- that inclues blogs, personal web sites, forums, etc. Even the johnsonsdepot.com site (which I very much like) is not suffiently encyclopedic for a link unless it's to a page that:
- Consists primarily of something such as a historical document that meets the reliability guideline and it's just being hosted by johnsonsdepot.com
- There's not another source online for the same material that's less commercial than johnsonsdepot.com
- Finally, a link has to be relevant and add real value. So while etsu.edu links aren't normally considered linkspam, the etsu.edu/cass link doesn't work for the Appalachian Mountains article. The Cass site mostly just talks about the program
There's been a lengthy discussion of links recently on the talk page for the Appalachia article -- you may find it interesting -- feel free to weigh in with your assessments. --A. B. (talk) 17:36, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
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