Template talk:External links
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[edit] Suggestion
I suggest using a div instead of a table, using the styles set in the classes messagebox, cleanup and metadata to match the other cleanup tags. In example,
The external links section for this article is too big and should be toned down. Wikipedia is not a link repository.
Please discuss this on the article talk page.
Just a suggestion. -- ReyBrujo 01:20, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
I think this template is a potentially useful addition, as it's more general than {{cleanup-spam}}. In addition to renaming the template as suggested on the WP:EL talk page, I suggest refactoring the template to match existing cleanup templates; something along these lines:
--Muchness 02:19, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, that looks much better. I would remove the "this external links section", so that it could be used either at the top of the article, or inside the external links section. -- ReyBrujo 02:29, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
- I've reworded it as suggested. One thing to consider if we use this reworked version is that we may need to rename the associated category from Category:Articles with too many external links. Maybe Category:Wikipedia external links cleanup or Category:Articles with external links sections needing cleanup?--Muchness 03:35, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Optional date
I have added an optional parameter for the date. {{External links}} shows:
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The external links in this article may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links. Please remove this tag when this is done. (talk) |
while {{External links|June 2006}} shows:
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The external links in this article may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies. Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links. Please remove this tag when this is done. This article has been tagged since June 2006. (talk) |
I suggest moving the template to {{cleanup-links}}, {{cleanup-el}}, {{cleanup-external-links}} or something including the cleanup like most of the cleanup templates. -- ReyBrujo 18:29, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with either of the second two options, but {{cleanup-links}} is too ambiguous in my opinion – there's potential for confusion with existing cleanup tags like {{redlinks}}, {{linkless}}, etc. --Muchness
[edit] New parameter
I plan on adding a new parameter to classify the "abuse". A numeric value to roughly count the amount of links in the article. If this category becomes big, we can then divide it into several categories. Classification could be minor (less than 10 external links), important (between 11 and 20 external links), major (between 21 and 50 external links) and critical (over 50 external links in a single article). Opinions? -- ReyBrujo 19:48, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
