User talk:Windrider6

A welcome from Sango123[edit]

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-- Sango 123 (talk) 00:01, 6 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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External links sections[edit]

Hi Windrider6. Thank you for your good faith additions of links to a website featuring photos of communities, but you are likely unaware of WP:ELMINOFFICIAL as well as WP:CCSG, which specifically states External links sections should include the “official link to the community only”. As a result, I reverted your edits (and removed other CCSG infractions from the two Saskatchewan community articles as well). Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 06:10, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reply:[edit]

It seems such a strange rule to exclude all other outside sources of information that could be useful. It seems counter to the purpose of Wikipedia, to limit information.

Otherwise for External Links, #3 at: What can normally be linked says "Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that is relevant to an encyclopedic understanding of the subject and cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues,[4] amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks), or other reasons."

Prairie-Towns.com certainly fits the bill, containing many historical photos of many Canadian communities. Certainly, adding all those photos to Wikipedia would probably not be wanted, and would be a great amount of work, but to completely lack the ability to know about such photos that are on an external site in Wikipedia would be a great loss. It seems logical that when one looks up a community on Wikipedia, one would like to know about relevant information.

Windrider6 (talk) 19:42, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]