Help talk:Contents

External link guidelines

Editors who add a certain site into each and every article in the site

Every once in a while, a new user comes by and starts adding a certain site into practically every article. You might want to have some sort of a page where users would have to ask permission to do that first. That is, they would describe that site, try getting permission from you to put it in each and every article and - most importantly - learn how to at least link to external sites right (lately we've seen everything from pure HTML codes to just putting pure URLs in random locations). -Biguns 06:00, 18 March 2008 (EDT)

Format of external links

Many editors just add titles, that is: [http://whatever... title]. Some also forget the "*". Please make it either:

* {{Cite web}}

^{(click on the template to get its parameters)}
Or, if you're too lazy, at least respect your fellow users enough to add ", domain.com" after the link so we'll know what we're dealing with:

* [http://known_for_viruses.com/modelX ModelX's bio], known_for_viruses.com

Thanks! Admins, I hope you'll consider adding this to the actual help page. -Biguns 19:58, 19 March 2008 (EDT)