Wikipedia:WikiProject External links
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[edit] Scope
WikiProject External links is a project with goals to:
- Improve Wikipedia external links guidelines, in any way that helps better guide discussions of whether to include particular links or not.
- Combat external linkspam.
- Quality control - Keep list of external links to a reasonable length and quality.
[edit] Parentage
No parent Wikiprojects have so far been defined.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
No descendant WikiProjects have so far been defined.
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
[edit] Participants
- --Aude (talk)
- JFW | T@lk
- DDerby-(talk) 05:01, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
- poorsod(talk)
- Quarl (talk)
- Urthogie 22:43, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
- General Eisenhower • (at war or at peace ☢✍☎☺) 00:31, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] How to help?
Be on constant lookout for "linkspam" and adherence to Wikipedia External links policy, keeping an eye on watchlist articles and Wikipedia:Most vandalized pages. Articles that need work can also be found by looking at random articles.
In some cases it's clear which links are 'spam', while other times it is important to defer to the content/topic experts to help discern which links are informative and useful. This could be done by copying the external links to the talk page for discussion, and for voting keep, delete, or give comments. This is particularly important for controversial topics such as Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
[edit] Articles that need external links 'weeded'
Here is a sampling of articles found on Wikipedia:Most visited articles and elsewhere that need external links 'weeded' through:
- Charles Woodruff Yost - 90 links
- Have added template, begun work on this ---Aude 21:18, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
- Fathers' rights
- Citizen journalism = 53 links
- BitTorrent - ~50 links
- Television - 32 links
- Savannah, Georgia - 30 links
- Olympia, Washington - 24 links
- Columbus, Ohio - 23 links
Other articles that need to be watched and may need 'weeding':
Cleaned articles:
Podcasting - 68 links- cleaned up by Samboy 17:32, 30 December 2005
Many other articles listed on Wikipedia:Most visited articles need to be reviewed and watched.
Other lists of popular articles:
User:58.7.114.188 seems to have added links to a wikipedia clone, wikigadugi, to many popular/controversial pages. I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post the problem, but I haven't got any better ideas. Pseudomonas 14:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Templates
- {{WikiProject External links}} - to use on articles that need work
| This article's list of external links is being reviewed as part of WikiProject External links — quality control effort aimed at keeping the number of links to a reasonable length, and in compliance with Wikipedia External links guidelines. Wikipedia is NOT a link repository. |
- {{Cleanup-spam}}
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